School: Cluain Fhada (C.) (roll number 15558)
- Location:
- Cloonfad, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mrs. Flood
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0248, Page 162
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- (continued from previous page)wooden ploughs. These wooden ploughs were made of a special kind of wood.
My great grand-father got the first iron plough in our village. McGivern's had a wooden drill plough in use last year.
Pat Quinn used make spades too. The people used to bring him four pounds of iron and a half pound of steel.
The carpenter used to make the fack or handle and they used to bring the fack to Pat Quinn and he used put the iron spade on to it.
The names of the potatoes are-:
Champions, American Champions, King Edwards, Irish Queens, British Queens, Defy the Crow, Up to dates, Epicures and Kerry-pinks.
When the potatoes have grown they are dug with either a fork or a spade. The big ones are picked and put in one hole, and the small(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Coyne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tonregee, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mr James Coyne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 62
- Address
- Cloonfad, Co. Roscommon
