School: Glassalts (roll number 1239)
- Location:
- Glasalt or Treanfasy, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: M. P. Ó Dochartaigh
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- (continued from previous page)into the potato-house. The pits are lifted in Spring for seed. Some of the potatoes are lifted before Spring (f) and put into boxes for early seed. Aplicues are usually set for early seed. Some of the farmers who have good crops of potatoes sell them in the market In olden times the people used to make starch from potatoes. They first washed them and peeled them Then they grated them and washed them and poured boiling water on them. Then when they were dried they were as white as starch and very fine.
- Collector
- Mary Josephine Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Craignahorna, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Neal Doherty
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 48
- Address
- Craignahorna, Co. Donegal