School: An Gleann Garbh (roll number 2379)
- Location:
- Glengarriff, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Caoimhín Ó Séaghdha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0279, Page 258
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- (continued from previous page)guano. They use manure when they are first earthing. They sow about half an acre every year.
They turn the baun with a spade, not with a plough. They leave a green sod called a bone between each ridge. Afterwards they turn half it to one ridge and the other half to the other ridge. It is in ridges all the farmers in Glengarriff sow their potatoes not in drills. The potatoes are not sown whole. They are cut into pieces(continues on next page)
