School: Longford, Kinnitty
- Location:
- Longford, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: M. Ní Thuathaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0820, Page 116
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- (continued from previous page)board plough, the manure is then put on, so many loads to each row which sometimes contains nine of eleven drills. Some people sow the potatoes over the farmyard manure while others sow them under it. Most farmers round here use a steel plough but Peter Mooney, Paddy Walshe, and Mick Pigney still have wooden plough called Little Olivers.
The seedpotatoes are cut with a knive and an eye must be left in ever part. They are then taken out in cars heeled up in the headlands and then a person puts on a proskeen this is made out of canvas filled with seed [picture of a praskeen] They are put down in a ridge about(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ned Cuddy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Pollduff, Co. Offaly
