School: Liatra (roll number 13341)
- Location:
- Lettera, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seán Mac Sheoin
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- (continued from previous page)bags with his left hand, throws a slit in the hole, pulls up the láidhe and goes on to make the next hole. Three holes that are put in the width of the ridge and 9 inches are left between each three in the length. When he has a full ridge stuck, he goes back on it again and shuts the holes by hitting them with a spade. Sometimes the stopping of the holes is done by dragging a thorn bush, weighted with scraws, over the ridge, if it is not lea land.
Manure is then scattered level over the ridges with a fork, the same as a digging-fork. The dikes are then cut up with a plough and the ridges are covered with soil by means of a shovel. The dikes are cut a second time and the second mould is put up.
The stalks are sprayed three times during the months June July and August, with a mixture of bluestone, washing-soda and water to keep away the blight, which would ruin the potatoes, if it were not prevented. The spraying machine is a fairly small vessel which the men have, strapped on their backs when they go spraying. It holds about 3 gallons.
The potatoes are dug in Autumn with forks. The digger stands on the ridge, drives 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
