School: Allenwood, Robertstown (roll number 1712)
- Location:
- Allenwood, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Seán Ó Clúmháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0775, Page 120
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- (continued from previous page)and driver and 5/- for a horse and driver. There was a hill near the sand pit in Robertstown called "Glanlush and most of the gravel was got here.
The workers would bring a paper bag of cooked Indian meal. This was eaten out of the hand.
Potatoes were got from Scotland. One of the sort that was got were called "Lumpers". Those potatoes when boiled stuck together and the people would say "that they would have to be rolled around in smith's praskeen before they would be got asunder". These potatoes resembled the potatoes that are called "Arran banner"
After the famine the people used to sow potatoes on the "Hill of Cualah". The hill was free and the people sowed the potatoes in ridges without any manure.
- Informant
- Patrick Lyons
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Grangeclare West, Co. Kildare
