School: Na Corráin (roll number 9938/9)
- Location:
- Currans, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Cormac Ó Muircheartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0446, Page 222
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- (continued from previous page)the ground before turning it: One method was burning the long withered grass: this was called fallowing; this made the ground rich to grow a good crop. In those days very few had ploughs and the ploughs that they had were wooden ones. The people who had spades had a special smith for making them. The name of the smith who made the spades for the Castleisland district was Begley, the smith from Knocknagoshel.When the potatoes are dug they are stored away in a pit; other people make a hole in the ground and put them down and cover them with earth; the people who make pits have thatch them with briars and grass.
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- Collector
- Denis Brosnan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lackabaun, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mr Maurice Hickey
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Lackabaun, Co. Kerry
