School: Carley (roll number 5332)
- Location:
- Crooked Wood, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Brigid Cooke
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0738, Page 325
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- (continued from previous page)Nettles:- Used to purify blood.
Hemlock & Night Shade are both poisonous
- Ground ploughed twice harrowed & drilled. Stable manure put in drills "seed" spread on this manure. Drills closed with plough.
Digging:- 1. Spade used
2. Ploughed out
3. Potato Digger
Potatoes sorted "Good" ones, "seed" (smaller)
"poreens" for pigs & fowl.
Storage:- In long shallow pits. Covered with straw or hay. Then "scraws" & lastly a light coating of earth.
Kinds of Potatoes:-
Champions, Kerr Pinks Aran Banner,
Hounder "Epecure" May Queen
Starch:- Potatoes were used to make starch
Barm:- Potatoes were used to make barm bread. This acted as yeast does & was used during Lent for making Bread. It was kept in stone jars (I can't say how made or ingred. used).
Boxty:- Was made from rasped raw potatoes on St Stephen's night.
