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School: Gowran (C.)

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Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
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Máiréad Ní Chuinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0860, Page 126

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    Potatoes are very plentiful in Gowran everyone has either a field or a plot. Those in the fields are sowed in drills & in gardens they're sowed in ridges. Potatoes grown here are:
    Presidents, Flounders, Kerrs Pinks, Shamrocks, & British Queens.
    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
    Ena Walsh
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    Mrs Burke
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    69
    Address
    Gowran, Co. Kilkenny