School: Cnoc, Abbeyleix (roll number 2324)
- Location:
- Knockardagur, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Seán Ó Huallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0831, Page 142
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- We sow two English acres of land under potatoes each year.
Firstly it is ploughed with a plough, then tilled with a cultivator and harrowed. The drills are opened with a plough and manure is put in them and "tossed". While the men are doing that the women are preparing the seed.
We get our neighbours to plant them.
During the summer they are cleaned and moulded twice or three times. About the month of October they are dug out and put in pits in the field. They are picked in buckets. They are dug with two horses and a digging machine.
The varieties are Epicures, Great Scot, Queens, Aran Chief, Aran Banner. Gregory Cups + Shamrocks. Shamrocks is the best variety.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Burke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Aghnacross, Co. Laois
- Informant
- Mr F. Burke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Aghnacross, Co. Laois
