School: Killuran / Cill Úráin (roll number 14658)
- Location:
- Killuran, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Thomas Mc Inerney
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0588C, Page 08_029
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- (continued from previous page)sciollans and cover them with horses. Others people cover them with the spade. When they are sown nearby three weeks they are leveled and after forthnight, they are raised again.
In autumn they are dug and put in to pits.
Afterwards they are chosen and the bad ones are put aside for the pigs. One day a man was sowing potatoes and an other man said, "what is the use of sowing the potatoes?" "Won't you have to dig them again?" The answer he gave was "where is the use in eating them, won't you be hungry again?"(continues on next page)
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