School: Ceis (roll number 15342)
- Location:
- Kesh, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Proinnsias Ó Hainín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0186, Page 437
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- (continued from previous page)with shovels do this part of the work.
- The parts of the potatoes having no eyes are called "cull" and are used for feeding pigs and poultry. In this part of the country the land is usually ploughed into ridges. These ridges are the "settled". That means putting the ridges into shape.
- Collector
- Brigid A. Tighe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballymote, Co. Sligo
- Before digging the potatoes rushes are cut and made ready for the storage of the potatoes. If a farmer has not sufficient help of his own he(continues on next page)
