School: Cillín Liath, Drom Dhá Liag (roll number 13412)
- Location:
- Killeenleagh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Conchobhar de Paor
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0293, Page 414
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- (continued from previous page)turned over with a plough and the potatoes and the potatoes are picked up and put into bags and brought home and stored in houses. Some of the people make pits of them in the field for a while and then brought home.
- There are potatoes sown every year on the farm in the Months of March and April. Every farmer sows the most of an acre of potatoes every year. The potatoes are a very useful crop. The majority of the farmers set the potatoes in drills. Small farmers set them in ridges. The ridges are more troublesome than the drills. It is mostly sprouters all the farmers put in the drills. It is nearly all seed is put in ridges. The people around here do not help each other in sowing the potatoes. But sometimes they help each other in digging them. A lot of farmers gather together to one farmers place and spend the day digging the potatoes for him. Then the next day all(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Mc Carthy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killeenleagh, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Margaret Mc Carthy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killeenleagh, Co. Cork
