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School: Swanzy Memorial N. S. (roll number 10428)

Location:
Moville, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Eilis F. Ní Stiobháird
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1120, Page 120

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    sow them and then we help them in return. When the potatoes are about three weeks in the ground we settleharrow them and a months time after that we hoe them with a hand hoe. Then we dig or grub between the drills and then we run the drill plough through them and put up new clay to bud. Some people digs them with a spade and others ploughs them out and others digs them with a potato digger.
    We all join in at the picking of the potatoes. We pick them with our hands and put them into potato baskets and then carry them to the pits and cover them with rushes or straw
    Lastly put about a half a foot of clay on the top of that to protect them from frost
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. potatoes (~2,701)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    David Mc Feeters
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Greencastle, Co. Donegal