School: Kilmactranny (roll number 6385)
- Location:
- Kilmactranny, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Cáit, Bean Uí Chasmháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0182, Page 072
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- Before splitting the potatoes, the people sort them; they pick the big potatoes which are called eating potatoes and the small ones are called seed. They are brought into the house and left in some place out of the way, for splitting.
Then the woman of the house gets a small knife and puts a glove on the hand that holds the knife for fear of a cut.
Then she starts splitting, she cuts out the piece of potato with an eye in it then the parts with no eyes are called luígean's they are taken away and boiled for pigs or hen's.
According as the potatoes are being split they are put in creels and lime is shaken on them to keep snails from(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen Farrell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ardline, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mr Farrell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Ardline, Co. Sligo
