School: Glassalts (roll number 1239)
- Location:
- Glasalt or Treanfasy, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: M. P. Ó Dochartaigh
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- The Potato Crop.
Potatoes are grown on our farm. We grow about two acres of potatoes every year. It is usually on ground that corn was growing on the previous year that farmers plant the potatoes on. Sometimes my father puts clay on bad ground to help to raid the crops. When my father is going to plant potatoes he ploughs and harrows the ground Then he grubs it and gathers the (ground) pirl. When he has the ground prepared he opens the drills. Then he carts manure out from the "Doiceall" and spreads it in the drills. Then he sows sulphur and dewana on top of the cuts. He then closes the cuts with an iron plough. The names of the potatoes we set are:- banner, aplicues, care's pinks, prides, russians, aran victors and Irish Whites. The banners and aplicues are the best growing crops. When the (stuff) potatoes are dug some of them (are potatoes) are pitted and the rest are put(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Josephine Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Craignahorna, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Neal Doherty
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 48
- Address
- Craignahorna, Co. Donegal
