School: Roundwood
- Location:
- Roundwood, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Peadar Réamonn
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- We grow a good lot of potatoes every year. The most we ever sow is an acre. A man by the name of Jack Lowe ploughs the ground for us. We always sow the potatoes in drills. The drills are made by a plough in our field. It was never the custom here to sow the potatoes in ridges. I never heard of wooden ploughs being used here. Some people make the drills with shovels, not wooden shovels but shovels bought from a shop
Before the potatoes are sown they are cut in halfs an the buds are broken off. Then they are sprinkled over with lime to prevent the juice from coming out.
It is not the custom for the people here to help their neighbour
Sometimes the potatoes get blight and the tops have to be sprayed with a fluid.
When the potatoes are ripe Jack Lowe opens the drills with the plough.
My father and some of my brothers pick the potatoes
We put some of the potatoes in pits and some in loft.
The pits are made about three feet high and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Brennan
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mr M.J. Brennan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Roundwood, Co. Wicklow
