School: Baile Uí Dhuibh (B.) (roll number 13635)
- Location:
- Ballyduff West, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Ambrose Madders
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- (continued from previous page)the farmers strip the potatoes and clean them and then add more clay to them. They dig them with a digger and some of them dig them out with a double-mould-board plough. The working-men pick them. They pick them in buckets and then put them in pits. The various kinds of potatoes are Arran-Banners, Kerrs-Pinks, British-Queens, Champions, Great Scot, and Epicures. The Kerrs Pinks grow best here. In Autumn theu dig the potatoes. The farmers dig a hole about a couple of feet wide and then they put them down the hole then they cover them with the stalks of straw and they cover them with clay.
- Wooden ploughs were used long ago by the farmers because there were no other ploughs to be had. Long ago the spades were made locally. My grandfather who was a smith made some of them. Nowadays the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Keane
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilmeadan, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- John Keane
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilmeadan, Co. Waterford
