School: Feevagh (roll number 9517)
- Location:
- Feevagh, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Seán Ó Bhaldraithe
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- (continued from previous page)man sows his own potatoes. If he gets help he pays wages to the man who helps him.
My father sprays the potatoes three times, - first about the first week in July, and then again three weeks later, - and again in three weeks time.
The potatoes are dug with spades both in the drills and ridges. I help to pick them. We pick the sound big ones first and put them in a pit in the field. This pit is made about a foot deep and two feet wide. We cover the pits with scraws and put a layer of clay outside. The potatoes are then safe for the winter.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridget Coyne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowntarriff, Co. Roscommon
