School: Virginia (C )

Location:
Virginia, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
Mrs B. Farrelly
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    When the potatoes are up over the ground, they are moulded after a time they are sprayed.
    After the seventh of July the people used to dig potatoes for their own use, and after the fifteenth of August, they are dug for every purpose.
    In the month of October they are dug and stored in pits for the Winter. There is straw or rushes spread on the potatoes, then they are covered with clay and then they are thatched to keep the frost from killing them. Then later on in the year, they would be drawn into a house and the small ones taken out of them.
    There is only one wooden plough in the district the
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. potatoes (~2,701)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Susan Farrelly
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Lisgrea, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Mr Thomas Farrelly
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Lisgrea, Co. Cavan