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School: Kilsaran

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Kilsaran, Co. Louth
Teacher:
M. Nic Craith
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0670, Page 073

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    potatoes were perhaps the only food the Irish people had in the bad times.
    Even now, they are so necessary that they are grown on nearly every farm in this distract. The farm nearest to us is meade's and they have eight acres under potatoes this year, other years they have sometimes more and sometimes less. The ground is first prepared by the mam with his two horses and a plough. It is them manured, and made ready to receive the seed. To prepare the seed, the man gets a quantity of potatoes, those with the(y)
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. potatoes (~2,701)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Cáit Ní hAmaill
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Castlebellingham, Co. Louth