School: Tattenclave
- Location:
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Chróinín
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The way the potatoes are put in pits: they are gathered up on other in a long line and covered with rushes and clay. When you put potatoes in a house you must not leave them packed up on other because they would rot. Potatoes would do better at the back of some ditch where the air would get at them than to be in a close house. - The people help one another to get in the crops. It is called swopping. The farmers put bone manure on the potatoes to make them grow.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- John Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 54
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan