School: An Chúil Árd (C.) (roll number 12588)
- Location:
- Coolard, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Máire Ní Liaghain
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- (continued from previous page)a bucket to pick the potatoes.
They set off for the garden.
Those who have not much potatoes dig them with a spade but those who have a large amount dig them with a potato-digger or plough them.
When all the men arrive at the garden the horses are yoked to the potato digger.
One man guides the horses and the rest begin to pick.
When they are picking the potatoes they seperate the large ones from the small ones.
Then they draw the potatoes from the garden to the haggard and they store them in pits.
They cover them first with straw or rushes and then put earth over them.
- Collector
- Nancy Hanrahan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Michael Hanrahan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Inch East, Co. Kerry
