School: Muckalee, Kilkenny (roll number 3832)
- Location:
- Muckalee, Co. Kilkenny
- Teachers: P. Ó Conchobhair T. Ó Teimhneáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0866, Page 070
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Muckalee, Kilkenny
- XML Page 070
- XML “The Potato Crop”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)Spring and harrowed and the drills are opened about twenty-eight or thirty inches wide. Manure is spread next. The potatoes are put on top of the manure, then the drills are closed. My father rembers wooden ploughs been used. The owner of the plough was:- Mr Larry Maher, Damerstown, Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny. None of those wooden ploughs are now left. Spades are made in Carlow, Roscrea and in Dublin. Spades were made in our forge, the owner of the forge was James Conway, Muckalee, Ballyfoyle, Co. Kilkenny. It is knocked now and another one was buil at the back of our yard.[Drawing]Spades are bought now in a hardwear shop. The different parts of the spade are the handle head and step. The seed potatoes are kept from year to year. Last year we sorted the potatoes and seperated the good from the bad. Some of the good potatoes are kept for eating and the rest of them are kept for seed. When we are sowing the potatoes all the neighbours turn in and help us. Sometimes if they could not give(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Yvonne Conway
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Muckalee, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Thomas Coonan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Muckalee, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- James Conway
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Muckalee, Co. Kilkenny
