School: Tullaghanstown (roll number 9605)
- Location:
- Tullaghanstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Áine, Bean Mhic Cába
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0698, Page 214
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- (continued from previous page)land belonging to each farmer sown under potatoes
The ground is always manured after being turned up, and the potatoes are sown in both ridges and drills.
When people are making "drills" they plough the land and when they are making "ridges" they dig it with a spade.
Long ago wooden ploughs were used everywhere, but those are all gone out of fashion and any ploughs used nowadays are made of iron, and all spades are bought in shops.
The people generally help one another in sowing the potatoes, some times they help one another to manure the soil and sometimes they help each other to plant them(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cissie Duignan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ongenstown, Co. Meath
- Informant
- James Duignan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 54
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Ongenstown, Co. Meath
