School: Inishmagrath (roll number 15088)
- Location:
- Sheena, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Mrs. C. Kelly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0204, Page 032
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- In Autumn in the month of October the farmer digs the potatoes with a spade or a láidhe. Sometimes he gets a meitheall that is five or six neighbours for the job when the work is done in a day or two.
Little boys usually pick the good or large potatoes after the diggers. These are stored by themselves, sometimes in a pit in the field, or else in a garden beside the farmer's house, and covered with rushes inside & clay on the outside.
The small potatoes are given as food to pigs & hens & cows. In some districts the good potatoes are brought to the farmer's house & stored in a [?] or loft.
- Collector
- William Irwin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumkeeran, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mr A. Irwin
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumkeeran, Co. Leitrim
