School: Crowenstown
- Location:
- Crowinstown Little, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: M. Ní Bhriain
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0724, Page 246
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: Crowenstown
- XML Page 246
- 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
- Potatoes are grown on my farm. About half an acre is sown under potatoes each year. We do not manure the ground before being turned up, but sometimes we shake lime on the ground, and plough it in, because it kills the worms and slugs and especially the wire worms.
When the land is broken out of the lea or green sod, it is generally ploughed into ridges as it would be very difficult to make drills.
There are two different ways of making these ridges; one is by what is called "skinning" or turning up the whole sod, and making it in the form of a ridge with a furrow left on each side; the other way is by marking or scoring. The sod is turned up on each side of the ridge which is about three feet wide, and centre is left unmoved. The manure is then spread on the centre of the ridge, and the potatoes are then placed about a foot apart each way, and covered with earth(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Lizzie Heffernan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Delvin, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- John Heffernan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Delvin, Co. Westmeath
