School: Ballinode (roll number 10665)
- Location:
- Béal Átha an Fhóid, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Teacher: M. Clarke
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0955, Page 194
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- (continued from previous page)another in the preparations. On every small farm only one horse is kept and it could not do all the ploughing, so two farmers join together and it is easy to get in the crop.
In Summer the potato-crop has to be wed and hoed. When the potato buds are above the ground they are moulded and wed again. So that they are easy to dig in Autumn. Most farmers dig their potatoes with a potato-digger and they are easy to gather. A few people join together and pick the potatoes. The potatoes are put into pits to keep them safe for winter use. Kerr's Pinks, Arran Banner's, British Queens, are they most usual kinds planted here.
- Collector
- Eileen Maxwell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cill na hAltórach, Co. Mhuineacháin
