School: Allenwood
- Location:
- Fiodh Alúine, Co. Chill Dara
- Teacher: Seán Ó Clúmháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0774, Page 279
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- (continued from previous page)are sown the farmers roll the drills and then harrow them. Then he makes up the drills with a plough. Sometimes when there are too many stalks the farmers cut down the stalks. When Autumn comes the potatoes are dug out. Sometimes they are dug with a spade, and sometimes they are ploughed out. The women pick them either into baskets or buckets. They are then put into pits. First a hole is made in the ground and then it is a widened and the sides made hard. Then the potatoes are put in and covered(continues on next page)
