School: Drumraney (roll number 13571)
- Location:
- Drumraney, Co. Westmeath
- Teachers: Ml Mc Garry Alice Mc Garry
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- (continued from previous page)that being the space between each ridge. A spade is used to sow ridges. When the young shoots appear through the clay the potatoes have to be finished, the furrow has to be ploughed with a plough to get more clay, and this is put on the ridge. Long ago wooden ploughs were used, there are not any in use now. The spades used now are bought in shops. Potatoes have to be prepared for sowing, each potatoe is cut according to its size into two, three or four scalps, the small ones are left as they are. Each scalp must have at least one eye, from which the shoot comes. In some places two or three families get together, especially where drill potatoes are being sown, some to spread manure more to set the seed and more to close the drills.
- Collector
- Teresa Shanley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Fearmore, Co. Westmeath
