School: Clonmellon (B.) (roll number 9500)

Location:
Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
P. Ó Droighneáin
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    field. Then the droppers get bucketfulls of potatoes and drop them. They are moulded when they are four inches over the ground, and in July they are sprayed. Some people dig them with a spade and others plough them out. My younger brother and myself picks them, They are picked into buckets and them into bags. They are store in a shed for the Winter, The names of potatoes are "Kerr pinks": "Golden Wonders" "Houndres"" " Arran Chiefs" "Annan Victors" "Leinster Wonders" "Shamrock"
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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
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      1. economic activities
        1. trade
          1. buying and selling (~3,622)
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  3. Usually grown up people go round from house to house on St. Stephens day. They recite the wren poem
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