School: Cill a' Lachtáin
- Location:
- Killallaghtan, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó hAllmhuráin
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- (continued from previous page)the crop is dug with a spade or with a potato digger. The people of the house do the picking. When the potatoes are picked they are put into a pit. First they are covered with straw and then with clay. The names of the potatoes that grow best in this locality are; Up-to-date, Garden Phillers, Epicure, Kerrs Pink, Shamrocks, Golden Wonders, Flounders, Arronbanners and Irish Queens. The shamrock potato is the largest. Some of the potatoes were used for starch.
- About an acre of potatoes is sown each year at home. That amount is sown each year.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen Connolly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyluoge, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mr John Connolly
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 48
- Address
- Ballyluoge, Co. Galway