School: Caisleán an Fhrinnsigh (roll number 11707/10648)
- Location:
- Castle Ffrench, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Micheál Mac Shiúrtáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0044, Page 0045
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Caisleán an Fhrinnsigh
- XML Page 0045
- XML “The Potato Crop”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- My father is a hard-working farmer, and he works from dawn until dark on the land.
He sows a crop of potatoes every spring. He sows an acre and a half of them some years, and he sows two acres of them some years also.
He sows them in ridges, and he makes the ridges with a plough. He leaves a furrow between each ridge.
When the ridges are made, manure is spread on them. The woman of the house cuts the potato-slits in the house.
She leaves a few eyes in each slit. The farmer spreads the slits on the ridges, and he puts three of them in every row. He leaves them about a foot apart.
He puts the soil that is in the furrows over the slits with a spade. When the potato-stalks come above the ground, the farmer moulds them.
After a few weeks, he sprays them with blue-stone. He digs them in the end of October or in the beginning of(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Hurley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Currafarry, Co. Galway
