School: Ballyheaffy (C.), Kilworth (roll number 10660)
- Location:
- Ballyeafy, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Mary Butler
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- Oats, wheat, rye and barley are the grain crops grown in this locality. Little rye is grown except farmers that their houses are thatched. They want the straw of it for thatching because this straw is the strongest for thatching and the most lasting.
Wheat, oats, rye and barley can be sown on lea ground or on broken ground. The same preparations are made for all these crops.
First of all the ground is ploughed with a plough and two horses. Then it is harrowed with a harrow and two horses. The majority of the farmers sow their corn by means of a machine called the corn drill. Some of the farmers shake the corn over the field with their hands. They then cover the corn with a spring harrow. When the corn is well up over the(continues on next page)- Collector
- Teresa Hyland
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Barnahown, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Thomas Hyland
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Barnahown, Co. Tipperary