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School: Colehill (C.), Mullingar (roll number 14673)

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Colehill, Co. Longford
Teacher:
Kathleen Morris
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0750, Page 210

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    We sow potatoes at home. Potatoes are usually sown in stubble ground that is where oats grew the year before.
    Fresh ground is best, what is called lea, no weeds grow in lea ground. When fresh ground is broke ridges are made.
    These are made by marking the ground with a scrape of the plough leaving the ridges a yard wide. The manure is drawn out from the farm yard and spread even across each ridge. The potatoes are dropped on the top of this. In olden times the potatoes in ridges were set with a loy. A man dug up the clay in the furrow with the loy another man shovels that up on the ridge. After two or three weeks.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. potatoes (~2,701)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Jane Mc Guire
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13
    Address
    Lisnacreevy, Co. Longford
    Informant
    Mrs Mc Guire
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    40
    Address
    Lisnacreevy, Co. Longford