School: Díseart, Droichead Átha (roll number 1434)
- Location:
- Dysart, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Ní Ailpín
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- (continued from previous page)with a tractor.
- We have no farm at home but we plant them in the garden
My father prepares the ground with a spade. First he digs it and then he makes the drills, and them he puts farm yard manure into them and then he prepares the seed.
The seed must be cut if they are big and there must be an eye on every piece cut and when they are read they are put into the drills and covered with clay.
After a while they are moulded(continues on next page) - Collector
- Maisie O' Brien
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mountaintown, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Mrs Cruickshank
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
