School: Killyrann

Location:
Killyran, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
Mrs Stafford
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    pinks are the ones mostly grown. The potatoes are left in the ridges until Autumn. They have to be sprayed with blue-stone and washing soda to keep away a disease called - "blight".
    When Autumn comes the potatoes are dug with a spade or a potato digger. The farmers generally dig them with a spade. When they are dug they are gathered up and put in big heaps and covered with rushes and clay and left there till the Winter is over and some times they are brought to the barn.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. potatoes (~2,701)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Daisy Gault
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Killyran, Co. Cavan