School: Ballyboghill
- Location:
- Ballyboghil, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: P.J. Connolly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0787, Page 384
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- (continued from previous page)starts setting them. He spreads dung in the drills. He leaves the potatoes down on the dung and leaves about a foot of space between each seed, and closes them in with clay by means of a double plough. The farmers gets men to help him. He does no more with them until they are up. When a man has only a small piece of ground he makes ridges with a spade. He spreads the dung on the ridge and puts three or four seed in a line across the ridge. He does the same up along until he comes to the end of the ridge. Then he digs the alleys and covers the seed with the clay out of the alleys. A roller or plough is not used either because they are not made like drills. When making ridges it is with a spade and shovel the work is all done(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nan Mahon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Grange, Co. Dublin
- Informant
- Mr Mahon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Grange, Co. Dublin
