School: Tullycanna

Location:
Tullycanna, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Tomás de Buitléir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0876, Page 198

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    sometimes they are made with a single-plough. The potato ridges are made with a spade or shovel.
    Wooden ploughs were the first ploughs that were used but none of them exist now.
    They were followed by the common iron plough is the one the one that is used now.
    The spades are bought in the hardware shops now but long ago they were made by the blacksmiths. When the potato drills are made the manure and the potatoes which must have an eye in them are plaed along in them. The potatoes muct be placed ten inches apart.
    Some cover the drills with a plough but others slide them with a shovel. When the potatoes are about two inches over the ground the clay is put up
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. potatoes (~2,701)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Alice White
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Maxboley, Co. Wexford
    Informant
    John White
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    58
    Address
    Maxboley, Co. Wexford