School: Naomh Bríghid, Blackwater (roll number 7036)
- Location:
- An Abhainn Dubh, Co. Loch Garman
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0886, Page 097
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- (continued from previous page)In collecting this béal oldcas I have often put the query re sowing potatoes broadcast in the years immediately after the famine. I could get no satisfactory answer but here is what Miss O'Connor (Connors) says:
The potatoes were the size of beans she said and to sow them the people made a basket of straw in the shape of a bee hive. This was shaped to fit under the arm of the sower and was held in position by a strap over the shoulder. To sow the seed the sower moved the mouth of the receptacle in parallel lines at the required distance apart from one side of the ridge to the other, the seed dribbling out continuously meanwhile.
- Dyeing: Miss O'Connor says the juice of the bark of the black sally was used in dying woollen thread used for sewing.
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- Miss O' Connor
- Gender
- Female
