School: Grian Airbh (Graine), Urlingford (roll number 6017)
- Location:
- Graine, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhubhshláine
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- (continued from previous page)The local people help each other in carting out the farmyard manure and also in spreading the seed.
- The names of the potatoes are Skerries, Sperry Champions, Up to dates, Ker Pinks, Skerry Blues, Flounders, Scotch downs, Irish Queens, English Queens, Shamrocks, and Eppicures.
Long ago when people would finish picking the potatoes that night they would make "grated" cakes.
The land around here is very suitable for potatoes. It is very good and the potatoes are dry and floury better than in the surrounding places.
