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School: Cluain Tuaiscirt (roll number 1405)

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Clontuskert, Co. Galway
Teacher:
(name not given)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0029C, Page 06_002

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    Before the potatoes are sowed they are cut into slits. When the drills are ready for sowing, the potatoes are brought to the headland and they are spread in the drills.
    The near neighbours help each other sowing the crop and if they could not come themselves they would give their neighbour their horses while he would be sowing the crop.
    When the potatoes are sowed they are left so until the leaves come up above the clay. Then they are scuffled and moulded and after a month or two the same thing is done again and then they are sprayed two or three times in order to prevent blight from falling on them. The potatoes are dug in Autumn and stored
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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
    C. Ní Maolain
    Gender
    Female