School: Baile Uí Dhuibh (B.) (roll number 13635)
- Location:
- Baile Uí Dhuibh Thiar, Co. Phort Láirge
- Teacher: Ambrose Madders
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- (continued from previous page)long ago the people used spades. Long ago the spades were made locally by a blacksmith named Jim Mansfield. Before the potatoes are sown they are cut into halves or sometimes quarters each piece having an eye. These pieces are rubbed with lime. The local people do not help each other in sowing the potatoes. In the summer months when the stalks are well over the ground they take the clay from them they flag them they weed them and then they put the earth back again and then they spray them. There are various kinds of potatoes in my district such as the Kerr-Pinks, Champions, Sutton Abundance, and the Scotch Champions. The Kerr-Pinks are the best eating potatoes in my district. Potatoes were used as starch
- My father is not a farmer. Michael O'Regan is the farmer next to us(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas White
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cill Modhíomóg Thoir, Co. Phort Láirge
- Informant
- John White
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Cill Modhíomóg Thoir, Co. Phort Láirge
