School: Cnoc an Teampoill (C.), Ráth Luirc
- Location:
- Freemount, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Bean an Bhreathnaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0365, Page 319
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - The Potato Crop Potatoes may be set in ridges this is usually done in bawn ground then a furrow about six inches is left. Five or six sods are ploughed together then the ridges are levelled with a spade, this is called ‘’hacking’. It is then a man comes with a “maitin” or scoollain and a spade and he sticks the “sciollans” into a hole made by the space with three in the breadth of the ridge and each row about two inches apart, along the ridge. The manure is then spread on the ridges. Then the furrows are ploughed and the earth of the furrows is put up on the ridges with a shovel, this is called trenching.
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