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School: Leath-bhaile

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Levally, Co. Galway
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Séamus Ó Maoldhomhnaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0018, Page 270

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    donkey cart and brought home for food for pigs and hens. The potatoes hole is made about two feet high and the length is according to all the potaotes there is to go into it. Straw is the first cover that is put on the potatoes. Outside the straw sgraws are put and over the sgraws clay is put. The potatoes are kept in the field until the preparing of the next crop. They are then brought home to the garden and put into the same kind of potatoes-holes there, with the same sort of covering. There are different kinds of potatoes such as champions, Irish Queens and kerr-pinks. It is said that the Irish Queens are the best eating potatoes.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. potatoes (~2,701)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Máire Ní Fhithcille
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lomaunaghroe, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Tomás Ó Fithchille
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    Lomaunaghroe, Co. Galway