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School: Cnoc an Chuilinn, An Ráth Mhór (roll number 9871)

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Caherbarnagh, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Nóra, Bean Uí Dhuinnín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0324, Page 252

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    more water and another potatoe or two were added. The supply was never let run out, until the cows calved in Feb or March. Poor people had to be content with it till milk got very plentiful. They got a gallon of skim milk then from the farmers every day if they asked for it. The old women passed less compliments on the skim milk that time than the housekeepers now on the Seperated milk.
    The Champions were the kind of potatoes mostly known 40 years ago. And 40 years ago here I think the generation were the same type of people as those that lived 80 or 90 years ago.
    Now we have Kerr's Pink Arran Banners, Queens, Irish Queens and British, Arran victory, North
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. potatoes (~2,701)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nora Dineen
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    c. 50
    Occupation
    Múinteoir
    Address
    Hollymount, Co. Cork