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School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Thurles (roll number 4068)

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Durlas, Co. Thiobraid Árann
Teacher:
An tSr. Aodán
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0552, Page 208

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    3. We set potatoes every year. Daddy gets the plot ready. He sows them in the month of March. Lime and manure is used. This is the way they us the manure. Make the drill first and then spread the manure on the furrow. Then put the "sgiollán" on the manure and close the drill. The people long ago sowed potatoes in the same way as the people sow them now.
    When it is time to cut the "sgiolláns" two or three old people go to the heap with their knives and begin cutting the potatoes. Some times they make three or four seed out of the one potatoe. All the neighbours give a help and "hand" to each
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    Language
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    Collector
    Alice Leahy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    An Chabrach, Co. Thiobraid Árann