School: Killasnett (roll number 9533)
- Location:
- Curraghfore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Eoghan Mac Oirealla
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- (continued from previous page)horse plough. Drills are made from ground that has already been laboured. All spades and ploughs are bought in the shop[?]. Good sound potatoes are selected for seed, large potatoes are cut in halves and medium sized put in round, they should be good eyes in the potatoes from which the sprout starts. When the crop is set about a month the stocks[?] commence to appear the farmer then proceeds to mould them with a shovel, when the stocks are about three inches high he sprays them, and after that weeds them. The(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eaomonn Fox
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Pat Rooney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 46
- Address
- Lisnabrack, Co. Leitrim