School: An Ghráinseach, Cluain Meala (roll number 7982)
- Location:
- Grange, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Maolchathaigh
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- (continued from previous page)generally scraped down with a spade. (scriosta - scrios na gclas). The furrows were made finer for the second clay (an t-ath chác) than for the first and the clay was made run off the shovel through the stalks.
Small cottiers did the work of softening the furrows with a spade.
If weeds were plentyful they were pulled by hand before moulding the second time.
Note: In the mountain parts of the parish potatoes are still sown as above in all other parts drills are the common custom.- Collector
- Séamus Ó Maolchathaigh
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Address
- Grange, Co. Tipperary