School: Páirc na nDriseóg (roll number 14294)
- Location:
- Brierfield, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Conaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0083, Page 117
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- (continued from previous page)and a potatoe digger. When they are digging with a plough they plough them. When they have them ploughed they root them out with a spade.Making a pit:- They make a long hold and pile the potatoes in the hole. They put straw over them and clay. Neighbours helpd each other sowing the potatoes.Names of potatoes:-Aranbanners, Eppquins, Homerulers, Aranvictors, Stripped Champions, Lensterwonders, British Queens, Irish Queens, Goldenwonders, Gladstone, Aranchiefs, Earlyroses, Uptodates, Founders, Pinkeyes, Kerpink.They leave the potatoes in the pit until Spring. Then they bring them home into the haggart and make another pit. They Champions is the best for eating and Goldenwonders also. Aranbanners yield the most. The people around used to make boxty for fun on November night. Boxty - They used to get pototates, washed them. Then they scraped(continues on next page)
- Collector
- May Loughlin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cooloorta, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Margaret Fahy
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
