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School: Lisball

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Lisball, Co. Cavan
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S. Doherty
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    There was no artificial manure but the poor farmers had a little bit of farmyard measure. The wealthy farmers has more. When the potatoes grew, they did not spray them because sulphate of copper had not been discovered at this time.
    There were not very many diseases in those days, so when they were ready to dog, the men dug them with spades, and children, came and gathered them into a basket made from fine rods. They emptied these in the pit and they covered them with rushes and clay.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. potatoes (~2,701)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Florence Roundtree
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Gartnaneane, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Mrs J. Stewart
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Bracklin, Co. Cavan