School: Ceathramhadh-an-Uisge / Carrowniskey (roll number 8719)
- Location:
- Carrownisky, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: (name not given)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0137E, Page 02_015
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- Planted here every Spring. The land is first ploughed and then made into ridges. Afterwards, manure such as wrack from the sea-shore and bag-manure is spread on those ridges. Then the seed-potatoes are cut into slits, and spread about twelve inches apart on each ridge. They are then covered with clay, and left there for a few months until the stalks appear over the clay. They are then moulded in the month of May, and are sprayed with sulhare of copper in June or July. They are dug as required in July and August, but in September and October, all are dug up out of the ground, and are put into pits and left there until Spring. In Spring they are taken out of the holes, and are put into barns until used.
- Collector
- Séamus Mac Giubiún
- Gender
- Male
