School: Liatra (roll number 13341)
- Location:
- Lettera, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seán Mac Sheoin
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- [sketches of digging tools]
A. Láidhe. It is used for sticking potatoes and sometimes digging.
B. A garden or shop spade. Its uses are much the same as those of the láidhe but it is lighter and is used for lighter work.
C. A digging fork used for digging the potatoes
The ground is not manured before ploughing for potatoes. It is ploughed in ridges. Six scrapes make a ridge and there is a clais three quarters of [of] a foot wide left between each ridge.
Women do the slitting in Spring. Each potato is cut in two or three parts, and each part has at least one eye. A sticking bag is then made for the man, who intends to do the sticking. It is made out of a cwt bag which is doubled up and has straps of the same material attached, so that he can wear it on his back like a school-bag.
He makes a hole in the ridge with the láidhe by working it with his right hand and foot. He takes three or four slits out of the(continues on next page)- Collector
- Annie Morgan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Croaghill, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Thomas Morgan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Croaghill, Co. Galway