1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Ballycastle Boys'

School: Ballycastle Boys' (roll number 14290)

Location:
Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Mícheál de Búrca
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0140, Page 117

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0140, Page 117

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Ballycastle Boys'
  2. XML Page 117
  3. XML “Potato Crop”
  4. XML “The Potato Crop”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  2. The Potato Crop

    Share Share Post
    Potatoes are grown on our farm at home. There are about two acres of land under potatoes each year. The amount never varies. A good year yields a good crop, and a bad year yields a bad crop. My father prepares the ground for the potatoes.
    He turns it up in the month of March. He harrows it and makes ridges of it with the plough. Wooden ploughs were used long ago. Some people
    (continues on next page)
    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
    Tommy Mc Hale
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Thomas Mc Hale
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    45
    Address
    Ballycastle, Co. Mayo