School: Leitir Mhic an Bhaird (Robertson) (roll number 15283)

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   the pan. When one side is baked the other side is turned. Some people rub water and sugar on it instead of putting butter on it. This is done by the poor people when the butter is scarce.
   Some people make fodge when the flour is scarce.
   Digging
   The potatoes are ready for digging usually in October or November. They are dug with spades. Then they are gathered big, and small and put into creels. When the creels are filled a place which has been dug is cleaned up ie All the old tops are cleared off it and it is scraped clean with the spade. The breadth is usually the breadth of two drills The potatoes are then (then) taken and emptied on this track. They are about three feet high and they continue emptying until the pit is about three of hour yards long. In the evening the potatoes are fixed up and covered with rushes or ferns. Two men then cover the pit with clay - three of four inches thick. Some put a second covering or rushed over the clay and others do not. The pits of potatoes are used during the winter and whatever remains until the Spring they are lifted and put into a house or another pit is made of them at the side of a ditch and covered with

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. agriculture (~2,659)
            1. potatoes (~2,701)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Nábla Nic Amhlaidhé

   Gender

   Female

   Occupation

   Múinteoir

   Informant

   Simon Elliott

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   40

   Occupation

   Farmer

   Address

   An Pháirc Fhada, Co. Donegal