School: Kilcalf, Tulach an Iarainn
- Location:
- Kilcalf Mountain, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Cáit Breannóc
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0638, Page 65
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- Long ago three acres of potatoes were sown in ridges on our farm.Spades with timber handles were used to dig them. Potatoes were eaten by the people, given to cattle and for eight pence a weight. About twenty years ago timber ploughs were made and cattle were used to pull them.The scollan were cut in the houses by women. While the men dug up the soil with spades to make it fine the seed was being prepared. Then holes were put in the soil and the scollans were put down.The people helped each other setting and digging them until one farmer had his work done.
- Informant
- Mary Daly
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 79
- Address
- Rearour North, Co. Cork
