School: Naomh Seosamh (Buachaillí)
- Location:
- Glennamaddy, Co. Galway
- Teacher: S. Ó Deagha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0017, Page 407
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- All the people around here sow potatoes every year.
The farmers plough the land and harrow it and make drills or ridges out of it.
The potatoes are mostly sown in ridges but some people who have very light land sow them in drills.
The drills are made with a plough.
The old people had wooden ploughs long ago for making drills.
The shades are bought in the shops.
There is an eye left in each potatoe for a slit.
There is a hole dug in the ridge and a slit is put into it and it is dosed with a shovel.
Some people help one another to plant the potatoes.
After the sowing of the potatoe slits the manure is put on them.
- Collector
- Oliver Bruen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Glennamaddy, Co. Galway
