School: Inistioge (B.) (roll number 1916)
- Location:
- Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Máirtín Breathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0859, Page 192
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- (continued from previous page)other in picking them. The potatoes are first ploughed out and then the people pick them after the plough. We store the potatoes in a house called, "the potato house". They remain good to the following July. The small potatoes are called "skilláns". The "Presidents" are the best all-round potatoes.
- My Father has a potato garden. He sows three quarters of an acre every year. Jack Neill prepares the land every year. the amount never varies. He ploughs the land first and next he harrows it. Then he make the drills. Then we sow the potatoes about nine inches apart. Then my Father spread artifical manure. Then he covers them with a plough. The neighbours help one another in the sowing and the picking of the potatoes. In the summer the potatoes are scuffled. Michael Kenndey of Oldcourt ploughs with a wooden plough. In Autumn the potatoes are picked from the earth.(continues on next page)
