School: Ballyglass (roll number 14642)
- Location:
- Ballyglass West, Co. Galway
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- We sow potatoes in our farm. We sow
about an acre and a half every year
and the same amount always.
The farmers and his sons prepare the ground and it is not manured at all
Before ploughed The potatoes
are sour in drills always.
Before the drills are done
the ground is ploughed twice and
harrowed and then they break the
lumps and they make the drills
with ploughs. Long ago wooden
ploughs were used and very few are left now.
There are no spades made locally but they are bough in the shop. Before the potates are sowed.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Paddy Moylan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathcosgry, Co. Galway
