School: Kildavin, Ferns
- Location:
- Kildavin, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Tadhg de Brí
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- (continued from previous page)pick after them. They had two buckets one for the big potatoes and the other for the small ones. They brought home the small ones and boiled them for the pigs or fowl
- In olden times the potatoes were sowed in ridges as there were no ploughs or machines. They made the ridges with shovels. The manure which they had was bone - manure. They got the bone - manure from the bones of dead animals which they burnt into ashes. It was the same colour as yellow clay. They sowed the bone - manure the same as people nowadays sow phosphate.
They shook the bone - manure on the top of the potatoes and then they shovelled the clay on top of them.
The women usually cut the potatoes. They left three eyes or more in each potato. Any less than three eyes would not grow. In olden times after(continues on next page) - Informant
- Mrs Hayden
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 56
- Occupation
- Farmer's wife
- Address
- Kildavin, Co. Carlow
