School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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would go in to the second drill and dig it putting every second drill sod at each side of him ,and then he would be covering two drills.The other man did the same in like manner until all the garden was sown.
Then they used sow "sgabeen".They dug a sgraw at each sid and turned it in.Then they would throw clay in to the middle and then stuck the sgiollans.After a month or so the would put out manure and throw clay ip up on top of it.This is called threnching .
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- Collector
- Cáit Ní Chorra
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Thomas Corry
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Clare
