School: Gortloney (roll number 11978)
- Location:
- Gortloney, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Eoghan de Buitléir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0716, Page 181
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They are dug out in autumn with spades, and are picked by boys and girls. The spade used is like this: (diagram on page). They are taken home in a cart and pitted in the haggard. The pit is long and narrow and covered with bog-scraws to exclude the frost and rain. They are not stored in lofts in this district. The "poreens" and diseased potatoes are kept for fowl and pigs.
- Games I PlayWritten by; Lillie O'Shea, Thomastown, 16th Feb 1938I play a lot of games at home and in school I like playing games sometimes, in the school I play games at playtime and one of the games is "Cat and Dog" because I nearly always play it. The first thing I do I get a big stone and we call that the "granny". Then I get two pieces of sticks as thick as a pot stick, one of them is larger than the other. The larger one "Dog" and the smaller one is the "Cat". Then we start(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Lillie O' Shea
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Thomastown, Co. Meath
