School: Maigh Locha (Buachaillí)
- Location:
- Moylough, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Muiris Ó Héigeartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0081, Page 047
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- We sow about a quarter of an acre of potatoes every year. My father and my brothers and sisters sow the potatoes.
We lay the manure on the ridge about two feet wide, then we spread the slits, three across the ridge. We cover them with clay out of the furrow.
We always use a spade. Timber ploughs were not used in Moylough. The spades were made by the local blacksmith about twenty years ago but now all the spades are bought.
The blacksmiths spade used to last for fourteen or fifteen years. If a man was sick and could not do the work a group of men form a meitheal and do the work.
When the stalks are one or two inches high they are moulded. The furrow is dug with the spade and then the stalks are covered with the clay put on with the shovel.
We spray in the month of June. We spray with blue-stone and washing-soda in order to prevent the blight from entering the crop.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- T. O' Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moylough, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Michale Scarry
- Age
- 78
- Address
- Moylough, Co. Galway
