School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: A. de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0803, Page 253
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- (continued from previous page)until done and then the water was strained off. The water was then used as starch.
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- Collector
- Bill Byrne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Bracklin Little, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Thomas Byrne
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Bracklin Little, Co. Offaly
- My father stores the potatoes in a pit. He cuts bog scraws and carried them to where the pit is. He gets straws and put them on the pit before the scraws. Then he gets the scraws, and put them on top of the straw.
- The small potatoes are called poreens. The best potatoes that grow in my district are Golden Wonders, Up-to-dates, champions.
- Black potatoes is the name for bad ones. Poreen is the name given to small potatoes. Garden(continues on next page)
