School: Borrisoleigh, Glenkeen (roll number 590)
- Location:
- Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Tomás de Búrca
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- There is potatoe's grown in my farm at home and we sow about an acre of them, every year a neighbour of our's, that prepares the ground for us to sow the potatoe's. Sometime's the ground is manured before it is turned up and more time's it is'ent. In ridge's and drill's more of them are sown in drill's the people in my district sow them, They make the drill's with a double mould bord plough. It is said that wooden plough's were used in my district long ago. The spade's are not made locally at all. The people buy them in shop's. The people in my district now a day, store, the potatoes in pits, champions, skerry. epicures. british queen's(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Harry Cummins
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cronavone, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Michael Cummins
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 58
- Address
- Cronavone, Co. Tipperary
