School: Cross (roll number 13141)
- Location:
- Cross South, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mártan Ó Colmáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0241, Page 211
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- (continued from previous page)a wooden plough. Wooden ploughs are not used in Carracastle. Some farmers, who have not ploughs, get a neighbour who has one to make the ridges for him and he obliges the neighbour in some other way.
Early potatoes have to be bedded in bones a month or six weeks before they are sown. The wise farmer picks his potatoes for early budding when he is digging the early potatoes in summer. The small ones are usually kept for seed. The potatoes that have buds must be carefully set in the holes, or the little bud will be broken off.
When the farmer is sowing the main crop the potatoes are cut into splits. Each split must have a bud or eye. After the splits season they are sown. Holes are made in the soil by means of a steveen, and a split is dropped into each hole. Before nightfall the holes are closed. About a week afterwards clay from the furrows is put on the ridges. This is called first moulding.
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- Collector
- Paddy Clossick
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 12
- Address
- Kilcolman, Co. Roscommon
