School: Sráid na Cathrach (B.) (roll number 8850)
- Location:
- Milltown Malbay, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Briain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0622, Page 300
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- In the olden times the people had very difficult ways for working.
When they were sowing the potatoes they had to skin the ground with a spade and when that was done they had to put the grass into heaps and burn it and then they had to scatter the ashes on the ground as manure.
When that was done they had to put a hole on the ground to put the potato into.
They had to sow the potatoes on ridges and on the mountain sides and those ridges are still visible on the mountain sides
They had to dig the ground with spades and forks and not with a plough like nowadays
People of to day cultivated their land with iron and steel implements
The ground is ploughed and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kevin Mc Mahon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockloskeraun, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Dan Mc Mahon
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Knockloskeraun, Co. Clare
