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School: Baile Gaedhaelach (C.)

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Irishtown, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Mrs Mc Manus
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0097, Page 559

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    potatoes. The people of the house that pick the potatoes.
    First they pick the big ones and pick them into pits, then they pick the small ones and put them into bags and use them for hens and pigs. When winter comes they are brought into the garden and put in big pits.
    The local names for the potatoes are Flounders, champions, up to daths, queens, epecure, and kerry pinks. The champions are usually used for table use the others are mostly used for foul.
    Sometimes potatoes are used instead of starch.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. potatoes (~2,701)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kitty Walsh
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Meelick, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mrs Devane
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Meelick, Co. Mayo