School: Clongeen (roll number 4652)
- Location:
- Clongeen, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Brian Ó Broin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0882, Page 340
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- Potatoes are grown by every farmer in this country. Some of the farmers sow an acre or two.
The ground must be manured because the potatoes would not grow without it. The farmer goes to alot of trouble tilling the ground. If he sows them out in the field he will have to make drills but if he sows them in the garden he will have to sow them in ridges.
They used to dig them out with a spuddle and pick them in potato baskets. Nearly all the farmers used to bring them into the barn. The champions were the best potatoes at that time and they used to get barm from the potatoes for the bakers to make bread, they also used to make starch out of them.
Golden Wonders. Kerr pinks. Champions. British queens.
The farmers must spray them three times.
- Collector
- P. Curtis
- Address
- Tinnarath, Co. Wexford
