1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Cnoc an Teampoill (C.), Ráth Luirc

School: Cnoc an Teampoill (C.), Ráth Luirc

Location:
Freemount, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Bean an Bhreathnaigh
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0365, Page 319

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0365, Page 319

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Cnoc an Teampoill (C.), Ráth Luirc
  2. XML Page 319
  3. XML “Old Houses”
  4. XML “The Potato Crop”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  2. The Potato Crop

    Share Share Post
    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.
    Potatoes are cut into “sciollans” with
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. potatoes (~2,701)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nora Foley
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Glanycummane Lower, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Denis Foley
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Glanycummane Lower, Co. Cork