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School: Tobar Ruadh

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Toberroe, Co. Galway
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Séamus Ó Cinnéide
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0040, Page 0197

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    every farmer around here sows some potatoes each year. When the farmer is going sowing potatoes he has a lot of work to do. First he has to plow the land if he is going sowing drills. Then he has to cultivate it and make it the clay fine.
    Then he leaves it so for a while and then he opens the drills and puts street manure on them and spreads the slits on it and buts the clay on top of the slits with a plough or a shovel.
    The people around here make no starch from the potatoes but long ago they made a lot of it and sold it.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. potatoes (~2,701)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Tommy Concannon
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Deerpark, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Nora Concannon
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Deerpark, Co. Galway