School: Ballon (C.)
- Location:
- Ballon, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Miss Peppard
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0910, Page 200
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- Long ago the corn was sowed in ridges and cut with a reaping hook, and threshed with a Flail.
The Flail consisted of a hand-staff and a Boulkin. In later years a Scythe was procured, and the trenches were reaped with a hook, and threshed with horse-power and cleaned with a winnowing machine. All this was done in the barn.
In damp soil, the potatoes were down in ridges with a dibben and in dry land, they were sown in the drill as usual.
- Collector
- Annie Doyle
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballon, Co. Carlow
