School: Ednacarnon (roll number 3523)
- Location:
- Edenacarnan South, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Staráid
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- (continued from previous page)and some artificial manure is sown on. Local people help each other to plant them.When the sprouts are about to come through the clay the drills are “topped” with saddle-harrows, and afterwards the bottoms of the drills are cultivated with a drill cultivator. Then they are re-drilled with a drill plough, and when the plants are about six inches high they are cultivated, hoed, and moulded.The potatoes are dug in autumn with a plough, a potato-digger, or a spade, and after they are gathered they are put into pits. The local kinds of potatoes are: - Arran-Banners, Arran-Consuls, Arran-Victors, Arran-Pilots, Kerr’s-Pinks, Up-to-Dates, Great-Scots, Episures, and Sutton-Abundants. The Arran-Banners, Arran-Victors, and Kerr’s-Pinks are the types which grow best in our district.
- Collector
- Viola Gregg
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bellanascaddan, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mr John Gregg
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Bellanascaddan, Co. Donegal
