School: Cor na Fola (C.) (roll number 3604)
- Location:
- Cornafulla, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Úna Ní Ghealbháin
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- My Father is a farmer and each year he tills a fair portion of land with potatoes in it. They are a very useful and profitable vegetable. He usually sows about four acres of land under potatoes.
Some years he sows more than others because the weather has to be fine during the time you are sowing them. My father prepares the ground by ploughing and harrowing and afterwards he makes drills. The ground is not manured before being turned up but when the drills are made manure is added.
If people have dry land they usually put them in drills, but if it is wet they put them in ridges. The drills are made with an iron plough and if ridges they are made with a spade. The wooden plough is for moulding the potatoes. We have a wooden plough at home that we got made with a Carpenter some years ago. All spades that we use are bought in a shop.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rose A. Shine
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumlosh, Co. Roscommon
