School: Baile an Bhunánaigh (B.) (roll number 16851)

Location:
Ballybunnion, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
P. Ó Hailin
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0401, Page 073

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0401, Page 073

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: Baile an Bhunánaigh (B.)
  2. XML Page 073
  3. XML “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. Potato Crop
    Every body who has a garden a garden grows potatoes. We have about 60 drills of potatoes at home. My father himself prepares the ground. If it is new ground or what is called ban. We cover it over with seaweed early in Spring. The potatoes are sown in ridges in this new ground. The ridges are made with a plough. If the garden is small a spade is used and the man is said to be turning two pairs. Locally called turning "twooes". To make ridges with a plough two scribes turned one way and two more turned the other way. To make ridges with a spade the ground is marked out with a rope and then the man cuts along the rope with a spade sometimes it is two feet ten and more times three feet. The early potatoes are set in the beginning of February. The seed is about the size of a hen
    (continues on next page)
    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
    Brendan Walsh
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Doon West, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    Mr James Walsh
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Doon West, Co. Kerry