School: Mantua (roll number 2327)
- Location:
- An Móinteach, Co. Ros Comáin
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Beirn
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- (continued from previous page)marshy. Wooden ploughs were used up to forty years ago. There is only one left now, owned by Patrick Reynolds. Long ago spades were made locally but only the handles are made now. The head of the spade is made in factories. Potatoes are prepared for sowing in this way. First they are let dry by the sun. Then the good ones are picked out and made in slits. Sometimes he makes two or three slits out of every potatoe. He leaves an eye in each slit. Potatoes are dug with a grape or low. The women and children usually pick them. The large ones are put in one heap and the small ones in another. Then the men put dry rushes on the heap and cover that with mold. The local varieties are Champions, Kerrs Pinks, Aran banners, Aran victors, Flounder Suttons, Epicures, Up to dates, Early Roses, Irish Queens, British Queens and NorthernA local spade
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- Collector
- Liam Mc Gann
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mr Patrick Sharkey
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 88
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Breac-chluain, Co. Ros Comáin