School: Carrickvallen, Dundalk
- Location:
- Carrickavallan, Co. Louth
- Teacher: P. Ó Dobhaileáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0668, Page 181
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Carrickvallen, Dundalk
- XML Page 181
- XML “My Native District”
- XML “Potato Crop”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)the hunters go hunting through the wood.Two rivers drain this district. They are the Glyde, and the Killanny river. These two rivers meet at Drumard and flow into the sea at Annagassan.This district is surrounded by bogs and marshes. The bogs are very useful because we get turf in them and turf takes the place of coal(?). The bog is a very busy place in Summer because nearly every farmer in this district uses turf. In the winter many game birds hide in the marshes and people come from the town to shoot them.
Written by:-Mary Alice McHugh
Carrickavallen,
Corcreaghy
- Potato Crop
The farmers put in their potatoes in Spring. My fatherhas two acres and a half under potatoeo.
First of all the ground is ploughed; harrowed and cultivated. My father prepares the ground. Then the drills are opened with a double plough. The plough is drawn by two horses. The manure is drawn from the yard in a cart and spread in the drills. A few days before the potatoeo are dropped they have to be cut with a bud or an eye on each piece.
Boys and girls are got to plant the potatoeo and they are paid one and six or two shillings a day.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Lily Mc Mahon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killanny, Co. Louth
