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School: Aughaclay (roll number 13140)

Location:
Templemoyle, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Seán Ó Beirn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1124, Page 133

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    them. He does this in order to prevent them from wezening. Then he puts them in bags and carts them out to the field. The seed is lift in heaps at the head of the field.
    Then the people who are going to drop the potatoes come. They fill their "cibbing" bags with potatoes and start work.
    They drop the potatoes at a distance of one foot or nine inches a part. When the potatoes are all set the farmer comes and sows the guano. When that is done he yokes the two horses in the drill-plough and closes the drills.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. potatoes (~2,701)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Rose Mc Laughlin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Drumaville, Co. Donegal