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School: Sriantaigh (roll number 8015)

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Sreenty, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
P. Mac Aodha Bhuí
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0934, Page 136

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    afford to buy sprayers, used to spray them with a bucket of spraying stuff and a small brush, made of heather.
    In autumn the potatoes are dug. We gather them. They are dug with a digging machine. Some of them are put in pits and the rest are put in a house. Then they are picked. Some of them are sold for eating and some of them are sold to the alcohol factory. The small ones or porrins are given to the pigs and fowl. The farmer keeps a share of the good ones for himself.
    There are different names of potatoes namely, “Arran Banners”, “KerrS Pinks”, “Arran Counsels”, “May Queens”, “Skerries” and “Arran Victors”
    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
    Brigid Mc Connon
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ouvry, Co. Monaghan