School: Cor Bealaigh
- Location:
- Corbally, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Marcacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0163, Page 085
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- (continued from previous page)The drills are made a foot apart with a double plough. In the shoughs between the drills they put stable manure.
Then some of the young children round about will help to plant the potatoes. The potatoes are cut into small pieces called splits. The split must have at least two eyes so that if one eye failed to grow the other eye would have a chance to grow.
They are covered with clay with a double plough; this work is called 'closing'.
The potatoes that they usually grow in this district are namely, Arran-victor, Arran Banner and Kerr-pink.
They dig the potatoes with potato-diggers in this district. The young children come in methals and pick the potatoes. They are put into pits and covered with rushes and clay the next year. The poreens are picked for themselves and boiled and given to the pigs.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Foody
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Emlymoran, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mrs Annie Foody
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Emlymoran, Co. Sligo
