School: Ráth Ciaragáin (Mount Bolus)
- Location:
- Rathkeeragan, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: S. Mac Giolla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0809, Page 104
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- (continued from previous page)the weeds out with their hands, When they are fit to take out people get ploughs and plough them out and other people come behind them and scrub them out
- When the farmers have the potatoes sowen.They harrow down the drills would a little wooden harrow and one horse after two or three weeks. Then they would mould them with a moulding plough. When the weeds come up they weed with their hands and with hoes. When they are fit to take out they open the drills with a plough. Then they scrawb out with their hands and fill theme into baskets and put them into cars in field and then draw them in and put them in pits.
- Collector
- Teresa Boland
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killooly, Co. Offaly
- About a week after the potatoes are sowed they are harrowed down with a drill(continues on next page)
