School: Baile na Carraige, Cill Díoma (roll number 11295)
- Location:
- Ballynacarriga, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Gríobhtha
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- (continued from previous page)her leg. From that day until the day she died she never got up from her bed.
- About 100 years ago an unknown man had a horse died. This man lived in Mellon and there was a fort beside him. He buried his horse in the fort and after a few days he became crippled.
- Collector
- Margaret Staff
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patrick Staff
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 61
- Address
- Ballynacarriga, Co. Limerick
- (continued from previous page)and bone manure and then they are closed with a plough and a pair of horses when finished the next process. when the stalks are up they are grubbed with a grubber and in a week or two following to raise the earth with two boards and a pair of horses. The next process is spraying the potatoes in June with a solution of blue stone and washing soda. The preparation for potatoes is very laborious.
