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Dripsey, Co. Cork
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Seán Ó Tuathaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0348, Page 215

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  3. XML “The Planting of Potatoes up to Forty Years ago in this District”
  4. XML “Varieties of Potatoes Formerly Grown”

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  1. The Planting of Potatoes up to Forty Years ago in this District (continued)

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  2. Varieties of Potatoes Formerly Grown

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    1. Black Minions.
    2. Brown Rocks.
    3. " Quarries.
    4. Leather Coats.
    Main Crop:- Horse Potatoes.
    N.B. Carta is the name given in Mountain districts in West Cork to "bogstuff" as they call it in English, i.e. sort of a peaty nature drawn in from bogs, drains, marshes, broken up in the farm yard & used as manure the following year for green crops, veg, rye, Stalians.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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