School: Coillte Bó (roll number 15984)

Location:
Kiltybo, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Michael S. Ó Ceallaigh
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    the holes with a spade. About a week after the potatoes are sowed the dikes are dug with a plough. Then the soil is put up on the ridges. The potatoes are manured before this is done. When the people are sowing the potatoes the neighbors help one another. People exchange potatoes so that they will not have the same seed each year.
    Wooden ploughs were never used in this district. The spades are not made in the district but are bought in the shops. The chief treatment given to the growing crops during the Summer months is weeding, moulding and spraying. In June and July my father sprays the potatoes three times. My father digs the potatoes in Autumn and puts them in pits
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. potatoes (~2,701)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nora Carney
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Mace Lower, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mrs Carney
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Mace Lower, Co. Mayo