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School: Tuairín Chathail (C.) (roll number 11181)

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Tooreencahill, Co. Kerry
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Síghle Ní Shíothcháin
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  1. The Potato Crop (continued)

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    potatoes for sowing. The treatment given to the growing crop during the Summer, is first to weed them, then to earth them so as the stalks would not grow up too quickly, and then to spray them so as to hinder any disease especially blight.
    In former times, the potatoes used be dug with spades, but nowadays they have far quicker methods. They dig them out with a plough or potato-digger. Women or children mostly pick the potatoes. The big potatoes are picked first, and put into a pit by themselves. Then the small
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. potatoes (~2,701)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eily Murphy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Reanasup, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    Benjamin Murphy
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    56
    Address
    Reanasup, Co. Kerry