School: Carra
- Location:
- Carha, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: P. Ó Tonra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0128, Page 512
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- (continued from previous page)rushes over them, and cover that over with clay. The names of potatoes they set around here are Up To Date, Arran Banner, Kerr's Pink, Chiefs, Epicure, Golden Wonder, Sherry Champion, Champion and Flounder.
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- Collector
- Tony Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dooyeaghny or Cloonloughan, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Owen Dempsey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dooyeaghny or Cloonloughan, Co. Mayo
- Pull the top of the heather and boil it and put Redwool through it, and you would have the nicest brown you could look to.
- Hemlock used to grow along the ditches and it was very good for a lump but I do not know how they used to manage it.
