School: Clochar na Trócaire, Béal Átha na mBuillí
- Location:
- Strokestown, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Olivia
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- (continued from previous page)The potatoes must be weeded before the stalks get too big, and then they are sprayed. When the digging comes the farmer gets a big "meitheal" and this shortens the work to a week or so. Some of the younger crowd pick them. The best potatoes are the Kerr Pinks and Champions.
The potatoes are stored in heaps and covered with clay. - In olden times shops were very few. People had to go two or three miles to the nearest shop and that was only a small thatched house just like any poor country house at the present time. The people used to buy little commodities(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Cronin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyglass, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Bean Uí Clabhre
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 67
- Occupation
- Bean feirmeora
- Address
- Tully, Co. Roscommon