1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Ballyroddy

School: Ballyroddy (roll number 12629)

Location:
Ballyroddy, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
-
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0250, Page 083

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0250, Page 083

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Ballyroddy
  2. XML Page 083
  3. 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

  1. The Potato Crop (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    83
    Kerr's Pink, Epicures an Up-to-Dates. I often heard of potato-starch been used for muslin curtains, the raw potato was grated into a vessel, what you grate was put into a cloth and squeezed, then you put boiling water on the squeezed substance, and by washing the curtains in that they got stiff when dried, the same as ordinary starch would affect them.
    Its Gannon
    Caldra.
    Elphin.
    Mr Ton Gannon (68)
    Caldra.
    Elphin.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. potatoes (~2,701)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Ita Gannon
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Caldragh, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    Tom Gannon
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    68
    Address
    Caldragh, Co. Roscommon