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School: Gleann an Dúin - Prison (roll number 17042)

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Prison East, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Máire A. Ní Dhocartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0095C, Page 18_015

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  1. The Potato-Crop

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    When anyone wants to set potatoes they first plough the land in which they intend to set the potatoes. Then they cross-plough it and then harrow it. Then they drill with horses and a plough. Then they put out yard manure.
    The potatoes are slitted by the women. An eye is left in each of them. The slits are left a foot apart in drills. Then a man comes with a horse and a plough and closes the drills.
    After a month when the stalks come up they are moulded When the potatoes are a foot high
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    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
    Teresa Kelly
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Prison North, Co. Mayo