School: Baile Gaedhaelach (C.)
- Location:
- Irishtown, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mrs Mc Manus
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- There are potatoes grow in my farm at home. There is an acre of land sown under the potatoes each year. Some years people sowes more than an acre. It is my father that prepares the ground.
The ground is some times manured before been turned up. Some of the people sows the potatoes in drills and others in ridges. A plough and a spade is used for working. The was a wooden plough used long ago. But there is none of them left now. They are bought in, the shops.
First of all the land is ploughed and harrowed then(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Julia Rattigan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Meelick, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mr Hugh Rattigan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Meelick, Co. Mayo
