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School: Páirc na nDriseóg (roll number 14294)

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Brierfield, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Séamus Ó Conaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0083, Page 116

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    apart according to the name and size of potatoes. Then they cover it with the double plough. If you be sowing them in ridges you shake the farmyard manure. You shake the gew anny. They spread the slits. Three across the drill. Like the drills they sperad them according to their name and size. They put clay over them. The use no wooden ploughs around this district.
    Cutting slits:- The pick out the seed potatoes. There must be one eye in each slit. People usually leave two eye's. They have them a week cut before they are sowed. They weed the potatoes. Mould them. If it is in drills they mould them with a double plough. If it is in ridges they mould them with a shovel. They spray them. People dig them with a spade, a plough
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. potatoes (~2,701)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    May Loughlin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cooloorta, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Margaret Fahy
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    75