School: Loch an Toirc (roll number 9584)
- Location:
- Loughatorick South, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhuirgheasa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0050, Page 0306
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- The potatoe crop
Potatoes are a very useful crop. For to sow potatoes the farmer prepare the soil. For to make the ridge He would get two horses and an iron plough and plough one scrape and he would leave about two feet of a green patch and then he would go to the other side and plough another scrape and then he would have the ridge made.
Then the farmer would draw out manure and put it on the ridge and spread the seed on it and cover them with clay and leave them there for three weeks until the stalks would grow. And then the farmers would tench them. And then he would put lime on them and after a few months he would spray them and then he would dig and pick them and put them into a pit and cover them(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridget Comar
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Loughatorick North, Co. Galway
