School: Ladhar (C.), Bán-Tír (roll number 8665)
- Location:
- Lyre, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Síle, Bean Uí Chéilleachair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0361, Page 094
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- The potato crop is one of the most important crops grown on the farm. Besides the potato being used for common consumption it is also used for animals and birds.
Two and a half acres of land are sown under potatoes each year by a farmer.
The farmer first ploughs the land and then harrows it. He next makes drills.
The manure is then drawn out and spread on the drills. While the men are doing this work the women are busy cutting the "skillanes". If the weather is wet and it is not possible to set the "skillanes they are kept spread out on a loft and sprinkled with lime.
Boys and girls get buckets and they spread the skillanes on the drills.
The farmer comes after the spreaders and closes the drills with a drill plough.
In olden times the spade was used at the digging of the potatoes, and it is still used by small farmers.
Farmers who have large quantities of potatoes dig them with a potato digger or a plough.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cáit Ní Chéilleachair
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lyre, Co. Cork
- Informant
- James Kelleher
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Lyre, Co. Cork
