School: Camross, Mountrath
- Location:
- Camross, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Heifernáin
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“Once upon a time a man was shot named Cally. ...”
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FEB: Doing the first ploughing, and sowing the winter wheat.
MAR/APRIL: Sowing the potatoes ans corn and beet.
MAY: Sowing the turnips and mangolds and cutting the turf.
JUNE: Weeding the potatoes, Tinning the beet, mangolds, turnips and attending the turf.
JULY: Cutting the new hay, and drawing home the turf.
AUGUST: Cutting the wheat and corn and old meadows.
SEP: Ricking the hay and threshing the corn.
OCT/NOV: DIgging the potatoes, pulling the mangolds and turnips and beet.
DEC: Rest.