School: Ráth an Bharraigh, Clanna Caoilte (roll number 9067)
- Location:
- Castlefreke, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Grífín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0316, Page 041
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- (continued from previous page)Nettles are used as food for pigs and fowl. Long ago a man named Daniel O Leary of Ardfield made use of herbs in curing people from certain diseases.
- Nearly everyone in this district plants potatoes. They prepare the land previously by ploughing it in the Winter. Some people plough in the manure also and more people put it on before setting the potatoes. They use both farmyard and artificial manure.
In the Spring the ground is re-ploughed and harrowed and all weeds picked.
Then the field is drilled and the potatoes planted artificial manure spread, and the drills closed. All the farmers in this district plant the potatoes in the drills . in the olden(continues on next page)
