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School: Cill Bhríde (roll number 13476)

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Kilbride, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Antoine Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0141, Page 7a

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  2. Na Fataí

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    To make a potato pit you first have to dig the ground about a foot deep and two feet and a half wide. The potatoes are picked and sorted dry and are then spilt in the pit and built up in a triangular shape at each end. The top of the pit is only about four inches wide. Then are then thatched with rushes and covered with clay outside the rushes. They are left there until early spring.
    The principal varieties of potatoes sown
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