School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0592E, Page 03_007
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- (continued from previous page)first of May the other potatoes are softened. In the middle of each drill there is one spare drill which is turned from left to right. When the stalks were high they used weed weed them and put fresh clay up to them ad early in July they used put out the spray
They used draw a barrel of water and leave it in the field. Then they used weigh the blue-stone in a bag and put eight pound to a barrel of water Then they steeped the bad in the barrel that night.
Next day the washing soda was boiled for to smelt it and then thrown in to the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cáit Ní Chorra
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Thomas Corry
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Clare
