School: Bennettschurch, Baile Mhic Cairbre
- Location:
- Graignagower, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Máiréad, Bean Uí Dhíomasaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0656, Page 157
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- (continued from previous page)taken in selecting the most suitable potato for seed, medium size is best, then when cutting an "eye" must be left in each piece. The potatoes must be left about three days cut before setting them. Then they are alid on furrows about fourteen inches apart. Some people put the manure on the ground before setting the potatoes while others put it on them after setting. Then the drills are closed and rolled and are left until the stalks are about six inches over ground. Then the furrows are ploughed and then howed and the coarse lumps of clay are taken from drill to furrow. The potatoes are moulded and soon after sprayed and in a few months after the new potatoes are fit to be dug. The pits are amde by digging a furrow in the ground, the potatoes are piled into this until they are about eighteen inches above the level of the ground. Straw or ferns or sods are put over them first, after this about seven or(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Bean Uí Riain
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 84
- Occupation
- Feirmeoir
- Address
- Ballymacarbry, Co. Waterford
