School: Bog-fhód (Buckode) (roll number 3736)
- Location:
- Buckode, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Muiris Mac Gearailt
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- (continued from previous page)is very wet and rushy the scores are levelled out again into their former position. Then the farm yard manure is spread on the "white" ridge and then the scores are again turned up around it.
Having the ground prepared the bean an tighe cuts the "seed" leaving at least one "eye" in each. Lime is thrown on them so that the snails and worms would not eat them when put in the ground. Next they are taken out to the crop field and placed under the scores, two in breadth and about one foot apart.
After a fortnight they are "set" which means(continues on next page)- Collector
- Kathleen Mc Gowan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Aghaderrard West, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Daniel Mc Gowan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gorteendarragh, Co. Leitrim