School: Dunleer (B.) (roll number 1306)

Location:
Dunleer, Co. Louth
Teacher:
M. Ó Ceallaigh
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  1. 1. Like bread, potatoes are one of the principal foods of our daily lives. There-fore the majority of the people through out the county sow them.
    2. There are many various ways of which the potatoes can be sown, for instance in the west of Ireland they are sown in ridges and here they are sown in drills. My father has no farm but he has a garden and it contains a quarter of an acre of ground.
    3. He prepares the ground first by digging the
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. potatoes (~2,701)
    Language
    English