School: Sliabh na Cille (roll number 14513)
- Location:
- Slievenakilla, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Peadar Mac Fhlannchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0206, Page 438
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- XML “Moulding the Potatoes”
- XML “Weeding the Potatoes”
- XML “Spraying the Potatoes”
- XML “Digging the Potatoes”
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- (continued from previous page)He gets a laighe and he digs the mould in the furrows and he breaks it into fine mould. Then he gets a shovel and he puts the mould on the ridges. This moulding is done only once.
- When the stalks are in full bloom, the farmer weeds the ridges. He stoops down in the furrows between two ridges and he picks the weeds out carefully from around the stalks and he leaves the weeds in the furrows. Afterwards he makes a fire of the weeds.
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- In Autumn, the farmer digs the potatoes. When he is about to dig he gets a bucket, a creel and a little laighe. This laighe is known as a "potato-laighe". It is a short(continues on next page)