School: Baile an Daingin (B) (roll number 1676)
- Location:
- Ballindine, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Séamus P. Ó Gríobhtha
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- (continued from previous page)When they would be ploughing they would want two men leading the asses and one man holding the plough.
When they would be sowing garden soil they would make drills. They used make the drills with the wooden ploughs. They used have "stibins" for for stickings the slits. There was a handle on it. The handle was very short. The top of it was like a top. They would make three holes across the ridges with the stibin. Then they would put three slits in the holes. They used have a man sticking the slits. He used have a bag on his back with the slits in it. They tie a piece of cord to each end and put it on his back.
They used work twice as quick with the "stibin than with the spade. Every farmer could make one of them. They used put a piece of tin on the top of it to keep it from wearing. When the potatoes would be just budding they would mould them. Before they would mould them they would plough the dykes with the wooden plough they used have one as pulling the plough. The four ass would knock the ridges.
They used cover the buds of potatoes with the clay. When they would be about(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Grogan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Newtown South, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Thomas Gilmore
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 71
- Address
- Ballindine, Co. Mayo
