School: Ballycastle Boys' (roll number 14290)
- Location:
- Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mícheál de Búrca
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- We set about one road of potatoes every year, and we very often have a good crop. We have to manure the ground after making the drills. Then we turn over the soil on top of the manure. We never use a plough. We always dig the soild with a spade.
Long ago timber ploughs were used and very often a man would have to draw the plough.(continues on next page)