School: Gallow (roll number 8301)
- Location:
- Gallow, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Cáit, Bean Uí Mhuirín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0689, Page 339
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- (continued from previous page)When the potatoes are grown up they are sprayed with bluestone - a mixture of bluestone, washing soda and water. They are sprayed to keep them from getting blight. June is the best month for spraying the potatoes.
Joe Kenny
- Digging out the crop
The potatoes are usually picked in October before the frost comes. When they are picked they are put in pits. These pits are long and shallow holes. The pits have to be covered very well so as to keep the frost out. The potatoes are put in carefully and covered with layers of clay and straw. This pit is something like the roof of a house in shape. They are left there for some time and brought in before winter wheat is sown in the field.
Rita Murrin.
9-12-38 One small wooden plough in the parish. It belongs to Peter Kenny, Coole, Garadice. (very old - used to be pulled by a donkey.) - Collector
- Rita Murrin
- Gender
- Female
