1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Druimín

School: Druimín (roll number 9438)

Location:
Drummeen, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Tomás Ó Ceallaigh
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0220, Page 282

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0220, Page 282

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Druimín
  2. XML Page 282
  3. XML “The Potato Crop”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. The Potato Crop

    Share Share Post
    We sow about an Irish acre of potatoes every year. My father prepares the ground for the potatoes. The ground is cut into ridges before it is turned up. Then the manure is put out on the ground and it is turned into ridges. The people do not make much drills about this part of the country. It is with the plough the farmers make ridges and drills now a day. The people "go to one another" sorting[?] ridges. When the potatoes are set about a fortnight they put mould out of the furrows up on the ridges.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. potatoes (~2,701)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Edward Moran
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Drummeen, Co. Leitrim