School: St John's Monastery, Ballaghderreen (roll number 13709)
- Location:
- Ballaghaderreen, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: An Br. P. Ó Ceallaigh
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How potatoes are sown in my districtBarony: Costello
County: Roscommon
Related By: Martin Peyton, 89 years
Address: Castleard, Ballaghaderreen
Written By: Joseph OBrien
Address: Ballaghaderreen
Age: 12 yrs
Date: May 1938Potatoes form the chief food of the people in my district and there for must be regarded as a very important industry.
The potatoes are usually sown inApril but "early" ones are sometimes sown in March. First of all the land is ploughed but if the field is small it is dug with a spade. The ridges are then made and the place left between two ridges is called a furrow.
Old potatoes are then got and cut up into splits. The pieces that remain are(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joseph O Brien
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Ballaghaderreen, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Martin Peyton
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 89
- Address
- Cashelard, Co. Roscommon
