School: Kilgobnet
- Location:
- Kilgobnet, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Cinneide; Ellen Foley
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- We set potatoes at home every year. My father and my brothers prepare the ground for them. First they plough the ground and then they dr open the drills. Then they draw out the manure from the farmyard and spead it in the drills. They then spread artificial manure on them. Then we spread the sciollans. Soem people of my district help each other wen cutting and setting the potatoes. Some women go to the neighbours' houses and cut the potatoes and when they are cutting their own they help them
When the ground is prepared for the potatoes the sciollans are set and then the drills are closed. After a while when the stalks are coming above the ground they are earthed with a plough. When they are big they are earthed a second time.
Some people in my district spray the potatoes every year. They(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridie Foley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Brookhill, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- John Michael Foley
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Brookhill, Co. Kerry
