School: Inistioge (B.) (roll number 1916)

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   make drills with the spade. When the flowers come out on the potatoes we weed each side of the drills. We dig the early potatoes about the 29th June. We pick them in buckets and bring them to the pit in a wooden wheelbarrow. One farmer help the other in picking the potatoes.

   

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2. Potato Crop

   

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   We sow about an acre of potatoes every year. My Father prepares the land. Sometimes the land is manured before being tilled. The potatoes are sowed in drills in the fields and in ridges in the gardens. A plough is used in the field, and a spade in the garden. Sometimes the neighbours help one another in sowing them. When they come over the ground they are hoed and clay put to them. About a week later they receive a similar treatment. They are picked in September. The neighbours assist each

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. agriculture (~2,659)
            1. potatoes (~2,701)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   John Cotterell

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Kilcullen, Co. Kilkenny

   Informant

   Mr William Cotterell

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   47

   Address

   Kilcullen, Co. Kilkenny