School: Baile Nua Uachtarach, Carraig na Siúire (roll number 9967)
- Location:
- Newtown Upper, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Brian Mac Tomáis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0566, Page 141
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- (continued from previous page)growing crop should have been cut back or "grazed".
- I have not much experience of it. I grew a small patch once as an experiment. But flax was grown here before my time.
- The old fashioned spade with tilley is dying out. It is too slow for digging or trenching but is still quite useful for fencing. A far more useful implement is the rectangular shaped spade. The handle goes into a socket.
