School: Colehill (B.), Mullingar (roll number 14672)
- Location:
- Colehill, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Coigligh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0750, Page 059
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- (continued from previous page)and they were called "Scotch Downs".
The potatoes were sown in the following way. First the ground was dug with "loys", it was then made into ridges. Two people then came along, one with a pointed stick and the other with a práiskin of potatoes. A hole was made with the stick, and a potatoe was put in the hole. This process was called "gouglin".
- The famine affected this district very badly according to my father's know-
ledge because there was a boiler of pig's feeding outside our house and one day some of the neighbours came and eat the boiled turnips out of it.(continues on next page) - Collector
- John Dempsey
- Gender
- Male
