School: Boulavogue
- Location:
- Boleyvogue, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Énrí Tréinfhear
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- (continued from previous page)235around here.Patrick Brien,
Ballyorley, Boolavogue, Ferns,
Co Wexford.
- Wooden ploughs and wooden harrows were used around here about sixty years ago.
The spades we use are bought in the shops.Gerard Lacey.
My Father told me this.
Mr Michael Lacey (48 yrs)
Carrigeen, Ferns. - Collector
- Gerard Lacey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrigeen, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Mr Michael Lacey
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 48
- Address
- Carrigeen, Co. Wexford
- There were wooden ploughs in use about thirty years ago, but at that time they were not very common.
The potatoes were taken out with a potato digger and the good ones and the bad ones were sorted apart. The little ones and the bad ones were brough home and given to pigs as food. The good ones are piled up in a pit.Mary Coleman.
(My father told me this:)
Mr Coleman, Legnalough. (45 yrs) - Mrs Doyle of Tomnaboley can make starch out of potatoes. First she gets some potatoes and peels them and cuts(continues on next page)
