School: Cluain Fhada (roll number 15091)
- Location:
- Cloonfad More, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Eibhlín Ní Thighearnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0249, Page 164
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- Everyone grows potatoes on the farm. The farmers prepare the ground and put the manure on them. Some use a plough and others use spades. Long ago people used wooden ploughs. Some people plant potatoes in ridges and drills. The spades are bought in the shops. When they are of weeks planted they dig the furrows and shovel them, and when the stalks are long they spray them to save them from blight. There are different kinds of potatoes such as Early Rose, Champions, Kerr Pinks, Up to dates, Iron Victors, Flounders. The children pick the potatoes. They put the big ones in a heap and put the small ones in another heap, They are left in heaps for Winter.
- Collector
- Kitty Callaghan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lahagboy, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- James Callaghan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lahagboy, Co. Roscommon
