School: Darver (C.), Dundalk (roll number 10547)
- Location:
- Darver, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Ní Mhuireagain
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- Potatoes are growing on our farm.
The amount of land sown under potatoes is three acres.
The amount does vary.
My brothers prepare the ground.
The ground is manured before being turned up.
The potatoes are sown in drills.
It is a plough that is used.
There are no wooden ploughs left now.
The seeds are bought in a shop.
There must be a bud on each potato be sown.
Then men and the children pick the potatoes from the ground.
The potatoes are stoned in pits covered with straw first and then clay is put on after.
The most common kinds of potatoes grown in this district are, Kerrs Pinks, Arran Banners, and British Queens.
The kinds of potatoes that grow better in this district are Arran Banners and Kerrs Pinks.
Potatoes were never used to starch in this district.
- Collector
- Eibhlín Ní Raghnaill
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Braganstown, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Raghnaill
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Braganstown, Co. Louth
