School: Baile Mhodáin (roll number 12011)
- Location:
- Bandon, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás Groves
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- (continued from previous page)for digging, some farmers dig them with spades, others with a plough, and others with a potato digger. The farmer gets a lot of help for picking the potatoes.
When the potatoes are all picked, they are stored away in a loft, and sometimes in a pit.
Long ago people generally sat their potatoes in ridges; this way was more troublesome, and more seed was required, and the potatoes had to be dug with spades.
Some people sprout potatoes in boxes, and plant them in the ground in the month of April.
Long ago carpenters used to make wooden ploughs and the farmer used to use them for ploughing. There are not any wooden ploughs now; all the ploughs are made of iron and steel now.
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- Collector
- Martha Burns
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clogheenavodig, Co. Cork
