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School: Cill Choinnigh (roll number 13563)

Location:
Kilkenny, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Séamus Mac Giolla Eoin
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    We put down potatoes at home and it is my brothers who prepares the ground. First of all the ground manured with farmyard and artifical manure and then the potatoes are put down.
    When they are growing they have to be freed from weeds and then when the are about four inches above the ground they are molded and sprayed a few months after that they are dug and put into pits in which they are stored for the winter.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. potatoes (~2,701)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bridget Mullins
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mrs Mary Boyce
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    76
    Address
    Mulnamin Beg, Co. Donegal