School: Cluain Eich (roll number 9942)
- Location:
- Clooneagh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Sr. Ó Donnabhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0219, Page 304
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- (continued from previous page)ground early in Winter for the second crop potatoes. Then they would gather all the weeds and earth in heaps and burn them for manure, because they would put all the manure they had on the lea. When the heaps would be burned they would scatter the ashes, and shovel it into ridges. In some places where there would not be much earth, they would carry mud from the turf bank and throw it on the place where there would not be much earth. When they would break some of the wild bog they would carry gravel and scatter it on it. They also used to carry mud from the turf bank and throw it in the sink to make manure. They used to carry the gravel from the house, and carry back mud from the turf bank. They used to carry all this in creels on their backs. They used to set the potatoes in the month of April, and dig the first new potatoes on Garland Sunday, which was the last Sunday in July. They used to keep potatoes for the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Hackett
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Liscloonadea, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mr C. Hackett
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Liscloonadea, Co. Leitrim
