School: Iomaire Buí (B.) (roll number 9817)
- Location:
- Ummeraboy East, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Gealbháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0355, Page 301
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- In olden times the farmers had different methods for planting potatoes. There were six methods altogether, namely grubbing, ré-digging, turning taobhfoidhes, ploughing drills, Scotch drills, and ploughing ridges. I am now going to explain how each method was performed. The first methos is grubbing.According to grubbing. One man would get a rope about one hundred feet long. He used to put the rope in a straight line along the garden and allow three feet for the ridges and one foot and a half for the furrows. When the ridges were made, the manure was put on them, and on the manure were put the sciollains. Then te furrows were dug with a spade and the earth was put on top of the sciollains. After a while the second earth was put on the ridges with a shovel.Another way for planting potatoes was called ré-digging.
It was usual for the farmers to raise two(continues on next page)
- Collector
- E. Mc Sweeney
- Age
- 11
- Address
- Ummeraboy East, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Michael Mc Sweeney
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Doonasleen East, Co. Cork
