1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Cullies

School: Cullies

Location:
Cullies, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
James Clarke
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1014, Page 068

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1014, Page 068

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Cullies
  2. XML Page 068
  3. XML “The Potato Crop”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. The Potato Crop

    Share Share Post
    There are potatoes grown on our farm. We usually grow about two or three acres of potatoes. This quantity is varied as it is not the same ground every year.
    Some of the potatoes are planted in drills and and more of the potatoes are planted in ridges. When the potatoes are planted in drills the ground is ploughed. The it is cultivated or cross-ploughed. Then the drills are opened and the manure is spread in them. Sometimes the manure is put in the field and ploughed down. In olden times there were wooden ploughs used.
    On the summer the potatoes are moulded. They are sprayed to keep a disease called blight
    (continues on next page)
    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
    Anna Lynch
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Drumhillagh North, Co. Cavan