School: Leitir Bric (roll number 14924)

Location:
Letterbrick, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Seán Ó Grannacháin
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  1. My father prepares the land for the potatoes. He digs the land and harrows it. He then marks the land in ridges. He leave the ridge a yard wide. He marks a shough on each side of the ridge. It is with the spade and scoring-line he marks the land.
    He next brings out "splits" and starts to put down the seed. He makes three holes across the ridge with the spade and the "Pitcher" throws a "split" into each hole. Then my father covers them with clay at the same time making three fresh holes for the pitcher to put "splits" in. This is continued until the seed is down.
    About two weeks afterwards he sets them. We put stable manure on the ridges. Then we shake shop manure over it. The shoughs are then dug and the clay is shovelled on to the ridges to cover the manure. Shoughs are seldom dug with
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. potatoes (~2,701)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Walsh
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Letterbrick, Co. Mayo