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School: Killea (roll number 3219)

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Killea, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Séamus Mac Coilín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0195, Page 215

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  1. How to Prepare the Ground for Setting Potatoes

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    Towards the end of March the farmers get busy preparing the ground to set potatoes. At first a horse is got and manure is carted to the field in which the crop is to be set. Then a rope called a scoring is got and the manure is spread and the rope is used to keep the manure in straight rows. The "seed" which are cut from other potatoes are then left in rows on the manure. Then the ground is "coped" with a spade or a plough. "Coping the ground" means turning the sod off the top of the ground up on the manure. Then the clay out of the furrow which was made by coping the ground is put on the ridge. These ridges are about eighteen inches in width and the furrows are about the same width.
    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
    James Rooney
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Lugasnaghta, Co. Leitrim
    Informant
    Patrick Harte
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Raheelin, Co. Leitrim