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School: Threemilehouse (roll number 342)

Location:
Three Mile House, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
I. Mc Eneaney
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0953, Page 329

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    The potatoes are dug after the corn is cut. If the field is dry and no rocks. They are dug with a potato-digger, and if the field is wet they are dug with spades, and put in pits. Straw is put on the top of the pit to keep the clay from mixing along with the potatoes. They are covered with eight inches of clay to keep the rain and out from rotting them, about the spring time they are picked some of them are sold and the rest are taken into the barn for the farm use.
    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
    John Mc Elvaney
    Gender
    Male