School: Cor Bealaigh
- Location:
- Corbally, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Marcacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0163, Page 094
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- (continued from previous page)double plough. There is a shough between each drill.
The woman split the potatoes, and the farmer puts out stable manure on the drills. They get three or four boys to plant the potatoes. Then the farmers cover them with a plough. They roll them with a cement roller.
When the stalks come up they shake bog manure on the drills, and more clay is put on them. When the stalks are a good height they are sprayed. The most of them spray them three times.
- He sets them in drills. He splits the potatoes at first and give the poreens to the pigs. He takes care that there are two eyes in each split because if one failed the other would grow.
- Collector
- Celia Hallinan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockroe, Co. Mayo
