School: Ballyboghill
- Location:
- Ballyboghil, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: P.J. Connolly
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- When the potato is set it must be well minded. After about three weeks or a month the stalk comes up and coarse green leaves come on the stalk. Those leaves get food from the air and send it down to the seed which was set.
In the meantime seven or eight small potatoes grow out of the seed which was set and they grow bigger as time goes on. When the stalks are three or four inches above the ground they are mounded. The alleys between the drills are dug and the loose clay is put up on top of the drills. This keeps the moisture down with the potatoes. In a while after the moulding the blossoms come on(continues on next page)- Collector
- Madge Keely
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mainscourt, Co. Dublin
- Informant
- John Keely
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Mainscourt, Co. Dublin