School: Ballinvally (B.) (roll number 931)
- Location:
- Ballinvally, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: T. Healy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0723, Page 257
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- (continued from previous page)them twice in June and July to keep them from the blight. In Autumn they are dug with a spade and picked into a bucket and then put in a pit. The way the pit is made is to make a furrow in the ground. The furrow is about a foot deep and a yard wide. When it is filled with potatoes you cover them with straw and put bog sods over it. After a month you bring them home and leave them in a pit in a haggard. The best potatoes grown here are Aran Chiefs and Kerr's Pinks.
- Collector
- John Fitzsimons
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killadoughran, Co. Westmeath
