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School: Camross, Mountrath

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Camros, Co. Laoise
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Heifernáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0826, Page 417

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    the moment he did so a Black cat walked out and the people never saw or heard of it after.
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  2. The Farmer's Year in Camross

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    JAN: Feeding the Animals. Laying the hedges.
    FEB: Doing the first ploughing, and sowing the winter wheat.
    MAR/APRIL: Sowing the potatoes ans corn and beet.
    MAY: Sowing the turnips and mangolds and cutting the turf.
    JUNE: Weeding the potatoes, Tinning the beet, mangolds, turnips and attending the turf.
    JULY: Cutting the new hay, and drawing home the turf.
    AUGUST: Cutting the wheat and corn and old meadows.
    SEP: Ricking the hay and threshing the corn.
    OCT/NOV: DIgging the potatoes, pulling the mangolds and turnips and beet.
    DEC: Rest.
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    Topics
    1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. gníomhaíochtaí eacnamaíocha
        1. talmhaíocht (~2,659)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Corry Delaney
    Gender
    Unknown
    Address
    Ros na Cluana Lasmuigh, Co. Laoise