School: Mionloch (C) (roll number 8800)

Location:
Menlough, Co. Galway
Teachers:
Bean Uí Oisín Bean Uí Dhubhagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0077, Page 080

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0077, Page 080

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  1. The people in this district sow potatoes every year. The farmers prepare the land with horses and farm implements.
    They put farm yard and artificial manure on it. There is litter put under stock every night and is removed next day and it is piled up in heaps for six months and it rots and then it becomes farm - yard manure.
    Some people sow potatoes in ridges and others in drills. The drills are made with a plough and sometimes ridges are made with it.
    The ridges are made with a spade when a person could not bring a plough and
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. potatoes (~2,701)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Lena Laheen
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Thomas Hackett
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    86
    Address
    Menlough Commons, Co. Galway