School: Clonmellon (B.) (roll number 9500)
- Location:
- Ráistín, Co. na hIarmhí
- Teacher: P. Ó Droighneáin
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- (continued from previous page)field. Then the droppers get bucketfulls of potatoes and drop them. They are moulded when they are four inches over the ground, and in July they are sprayed. Some people dig them with a spade and others plough them out. My younger brother and myself picks them, They are picked into buckets and them into bags. They are store in a shed for the Winter, The names of potatoes are "Kerr pinks": "Golden Wonders" "Houndres"" " Arran Chiefs" "Annan Victors" "Leinster Wonders" "Shamrock"
- "A stitch in times saves nine"
""You never miss the water until the well runs dry"
"A rolling stone gathers no moss"
"A shut mouth catches no flies"
"Health is better than wealth"
"If you don's sour in spring you wont reap in the autumn"
"A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush"
"Rubbing fat to a fat pigs back"
"Time and tide waits for no man" - Usually grown up people go round from house to house on St. Stephens day. They recite the wren poem(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seumas Mac Cárthaigh
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Bean Uí Cárthaigh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ráistín, Co. na hIarmhí
