School: Boston (roll number 10212)
- Location:
- Bostoncommon, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhocharthaigh
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- (continued from previous page)was beyond the peoples reach to buy. It cost one £1 per cwt.
The terrible disease was known as the "Black Fever" and it swept away whole families. Sometimes a family lay dead and unburied for days and no one would venture to go near lest he too would catch the disease. - Potatoes are gown at home. The amount varies from about half an acre in a cottage garden to one or two acres in a middle sized farm say of sixty or seventy acres and sometimes as many as four acres are sown on still bigger farms. Again a very big farm might contain less potatoes than one considerably smaller. The farmer himself prepares the ground, but almost all the big farmers keep a ploughman of their own.
When a field is ploughed two or three years in succession it is manured before it is turned up. They plough it in the manure. When a field is newly broken it is not manured until(continues on next page)- Collector
- Bridie Heffernan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Feighcullen, Co. Kildare