School: Gowran (C.)
- Location:
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Chuinn
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- Workmen are employed to prepare the ground before the potatoes go in. First it is ploughed & then harrowed. Nearly all ploughs are used now except in case of a small garden where the plough would not fit. In Summer the potatoes are sprayed & rolled to prevent a blight coming on them.
- Collector
- Peggy Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bodal, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mrs Culleton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clashwilliam, Co. Kilkenny