School: St Bridget's (roll number 13854)
- Location:
- Doire Mhór, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Máire Uí hOistín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0138D, Page 14_062
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- This is how the potatoes are picked.
These are some of the sorts of potatoes that are sowed Dates, Champions, Epicures, Aran Banners, Irish Queens and British Queens.
Long ago the potatoes were used for starch. This is how the starch was made. First the potatoes were scraped then they were squeezed and the juice that came out of them when they were squeezed was the starch.
This is how the potatoes are sowed. First the ground is dug with a spade and made(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cáit Ní Oistín
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Kate Hastings
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Léana Uí Bhiasta, Co. Mhaigh Eo
