School: Benbawn
- Location:
- Binbane, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: M. Gillespie
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1019, Page 137
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Benbawn
- XML Page 137
- 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
- (continued from previous page)the year before only the ground has to be worked with the spade.
Cultivation of the Potato crop.
When potatoes were planted in ridges people dig the furrows with spades, and then shovel them. Then the farmers weed them and after they are wed they are sprayed the first time then after about twenty days they are sprayed the second time and then about ten days more they are sprayed the three times
Also when potatoes were planted in drills the farmers mould them with a plough then after awhile they are moulded the second time then in a month they are sprayed the first time then in ten days they are sprayed the second time ten in ten days more they are sprayed three times.
There are two kinds of sprayers the knapsack sprayer, and the horse sprayer. People spray with blue-stone and washing-soda or fresh-lime.
When the blight would come in August it would blacken the potatoes if they were not sprayed.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Hannah Chambers
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cornamucklagh, Co. Cavan
