School: St Brigid's Convent, Mountrath (roll number 13343)
- Location:
- Mountrath, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Sr. Aquinas
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0834, Page 169
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- (continued from previous page)turf mould to dry up the cuts.
Local people help one another in sowing and gathering the crop. In country districts small farmers help each other out to gather. This system is called "cubhring" from the Irish word "cabhair" which means help.
In Autumn when potatoes are fit for digging the drills are cleaned using a grubber. The methods employed in digging are two:- with what is known as the potato digger and with spades. The potatoes when dug are picked into buckets and pitted in the fields. This method of pitting potatoes is not a very good one. If farmers could bring the potatoes direct from the field to the haggard, it would save an amount of extra work in the Spring.
- Collector
- Peg O' Neill
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mountrath, Co. Laois
- Informant
- Mr J. O' Neill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mountrath, Co. Laois
