School: Ballyuskill (B.), Ballyragget
- Location:
- Ballyoskill, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: F. Mac Cárthaigh
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- (continued from previous page)put in a pit and small ones are given to the pigs
- When the potatoes is sown there are first drillharrowed, wed, and flaged. Long ago potatoes were sown in ridges. The way the people sow the potatoes now is in drills. They drills are opened with a plough and dung put out and teased.
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- Collector
- Michael Brophy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyoskill, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Martin Brophy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyoskill, Co. Kilkenny
- Saint Stephen's day men and boys dress up in queer clothes and the go from house to house singing a(continues on next page)