School: Manulla (roll number 14544)

Location:
Manulla, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Seán Mac an Adhastair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0095, Page 248

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    order. He ploughs his land and he thinks it is good to have it ploughed before the Winter frost goes. In April April he harrows it with a wooden harrow. With the plough he makes the drills. A boy places the farm-yard manure in little heaps along the furrows of the drills with a donkey and pardógs, and sometimes with a donkey and cart. A man scatters the manure with a "grape". The woman of the house cuts the sets. She puts lime and the sets to prevent insects from attacking them. She leaves them for a fortnight or three weeks until they dry. For the early gardens she puts turf mould on them. Bactogs come on them in the turf mould. People say Friday is a lucky day for "sowing "lea land. The sets are placed in the furrows of the drills ten inches apart. In gardens potatoes are sown with a
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. potatoes (~2,701)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Michael Armstrong
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Skiddernagh, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    James Armstrong
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    Skiddernagh, Co. Mayo