School: Dernakesh (B)

Location:
Dernakesh, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
T. Ó Comhraidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1017, Page 456

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    The rest of the plough was iron. The people used to plough with bullocks. Mr Cralwey Carrickmass made the ploughs. The traces that they used were made of toe and were tied on to sugans on the bullocks neck.
    (5) The kind of spade we use, is a flat piece of iron about four inches wide and nine long. The bottom part of it is sharp, and there is a round piece of wood sticking out of the other side with a top on it for a shaft. There are also two lugs nailed at the bottom of the shaft on each side for your foot. Spades are made in clones.
    (6) When we are digging the potatoes we pick the medium sized ones out and leave themselves in a house. We leave them there for about three months and then we go over them again. If there are "eyes" on any of them we put those in boxes which are about four inches deep, two to three feet long and about fifteen inches
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    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. potatoes (~2,701)