School: Baile Uí Dhuibh (B.) (roll number 13635)
- Location:
- Ballyduff West, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Ambrose Madders
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- (continued from previous page)rain and when they fly high it is a sign of good weather. When the swallows fly inland it is a sign of hard weather on the sea. Another omen is that when the curlew bawls twice it is a sign of rain and when it bawls once it is a sign of good weather.
- The big farmers around my district sow from twenty acres of potatoes up every year. The small farmers sow six of seven acres. The farmers' men prepare the ground for the potatoes. They do not manure the ground before they plough it. All the farmers sow the potatoes in drills. But the gardeners set them in ridges because if they set them in drills they would use too much ground. The farmers used wooden ploughs long ago because they had no iron ploughs. Some of the farmers long ago(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Denis Keane
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilmeadan, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- John Keane
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilmeadan, Co. Waterford
