School: Clonmellon (B.) (roll number 9500)
- Location:
- Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P. Ó Droighneáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0725, Page 070
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- (continued from previous page)labour given in the Famine times. This road is called the "Split Hills".Another road which has by all appearances been so treated as the road from Clonmellon to Kells via Killua. There is no record of the wages the labourers were paid.
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- Collector
- Michael Mac Mahon
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Tom Carty
- Gender
- Male
- My father usually prepares our garden for the potato crop. The ground is never manured before being turned up. The potatoes are sown in ridges. The ground is dug with a bought spade. The potatoes are prepared by cutting in two with a few "eyes" in each half. The potatoes are sown a foot from each other.When the stalks begin to appear they are moulded with clay. The potatoes are dug according as we use them.
