School: Ballyragget Convent
- Location:
- Ballyragget, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: -
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- (continued from previous page)to train them and very difficult to get them to work a churn.
They were not as strong as horses so they were easier managed.
- We grow about half an acre of potatoes each year. The ground is prepared by being ploughed in the early winter it a corncrop has been sown during the year and in the early srping if turnips or other root crop. After being ploughed, the ground is harrowed so that all loose weeds(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patricia Phelan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyconra, Co. Kilkenny
