School: Cúige (roll number 10773)
- Location:
- Coogue Middle, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Briain
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- The potatoes were sown as now but the land was turned with spades instead of ploughed. The spades used were "feac" and bróigín" spades. The "bróigín" was a piece of timber about eighteen inches long shaped with a step for the foot and fitting into the iron. The local blacksmith made the iron and put a "lay" or fresh piece on to it when it was getting worn. The "bróigín" was attached to the hands by means of too closely-fitting iron rings. Potatoes were never sown in drills. The stubble land was turned over in ridges as now, and put into the ground with the spade.(continues on next page)