School: An Clochar, Carraig Thuathail
- Location:
- Carrigtohill, Co. Cork
- Teacher: An tSr. Celestine
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- Potatoes are grown on our farm. One and a half acres are sown under the potatoes. The amount varies almost every year. A man and horses prepare the ground. The ground is not manured before being turned up.
The potatoes are sown in drills on our farm. The drill is amde by a double board plough.
Wooden ploughs were used about one hundred years ago, none of these ploughs are left. The spades are bought in a shop.
Most of the potatoes are sown whole only very large ones are cut in two parts these are called "scollánr".
The local people help one another in sowing the potatoes. The men come and help to set them. The people hoe and rise the earth up to the stalks. They spray them in June.
Diggers and ploughs are used in digging the potatoes in October. Men and women pick the potatoes with their hands into buckets or skeas. The potatoes are(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Lily O' Keeffe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Barryscourt, Co. Cork
