School: Ceann Tuirc (roll number 9317)
- Location:
- Kinturk, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Lochlainn
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The Potatoes.
Everyone sows potatoes here in our district at present .First of all the garden is dug with a digger and the lumps of earth broken with a harrow.Then drills are made of it with a timber plough.The toptress is put out on the drills with a barrow .it is cows manure that's used.Sometimes the drills are made with a shovel.
Long ago the people used their own spades with an old iron and edge it.When they would be finished with it they would bring it in and leave it up very carefully.They used to stick a turnip in the edge of them in order it would not cut anyone.
Some people sew potatoes on red ground but it is nearly all black ground that is(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Reidy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glenletternafinny, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Mr James Reidy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 63
- Address
- Glenletternafinny, Co. Clare
