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School: Clochar na Trócaire, Béal Átha na mBuillí

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Strokestown, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
An tSr. M. Olivia
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0253, Page 236

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  3. XML “The Potato Crop”
  4. XML “Buying and Selling”

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  1. The Potato Crop (continued)

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    The potatoes must be weeded before the stalks get too big, and then they are sprayed. When the digging comes the farmer gets a big "meitheal" and this shortens the work to a week or so. Some of the younger crowd pick them. The best potatoes are the Kerr Pinks and Champions.
    The potatoes are stored in heaps and covered with clay.
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  2. Buying and Selling

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    In olden times shops were very few. People had to go two or three miles to the nearest shop and that was only a small thatched house just like any poor country house at the present time. The people used to buy little commodities
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