School: Kilgobnet
- Location:
- Kilgobnet, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Cinneide; Ellen Foley
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0471, Page 320
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: Kilgobnet
- XML Page 320
- XML “Potatoes”
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)gert a certain amount of blue-stone and washing soda, and dissolve it separately and then put it into a barrel of cold water. A spraying can is then strapped to the sprayer back and it is filled with the mixture and then goes from drill to drill and sprays the potatoes.
In the Autumn when the potatoes are ripe they are dug with spades and piled in a heap along the field and then covered with ferns and earth. They leave them in the pits for a time but the crocáns are given to cows.
There are four kinds of potatoes grown in my place every year. They are. "Aran Scots", "Kerr Pinks", "Aran Banners" and "Champions". The Champions are the bet potatoes for eating but there is a much better produce in the Aran Banners.
The seed potato is called a sciollán. The sciollógs are the waste that are not for seed. The caistlans are the twisted ones. The seacaide were the frost bite potatoes. The small potatoes(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridie Foley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Brookhill, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- John Michael Foley
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Brookhill, Co. Kerry
