School: Maoilinn (C.), Áth Treasna

Location:
Meelin, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Cheallacháin
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  1. We sow about a Irish acre of bawn potatoes, and a half acre of drills each year.
    Bawn : For bawn the manure is carted out to the untilled field in January, and raked out and broken very fine. Later the ground is ploughed into ridges consisting of four and sometimes five sods - the ridge being 3½ ft and the furrow 18 inches. The ridges are then hacked and levelled and brought to a fine seed bed.
    Then a man goes out with a "sticking bag" of potatoes and a spade and makes three holes across the breadth of the ridge and puts a "sciollan" in each hole. Then with a fork the earth is thrown from the furrow to cover the seed. They are "scuffled" and "stoned" with a furrow-stone and the earth made very fine in the furrows.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. potatoes (~2,701)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Catherine Browne
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mr T. Browne
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Knockduff Upper, Co. Cork