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School: Garrán, Drom Dhá Liag (roll number 11274)

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Garranes South, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Conchobhar Ó Drisceoil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0292, Page 296

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    get a spade and a kind of sack to hold the sgiollans. The name of it is a pouch. The women of the house that cut the seed. When they get a potato that there would not be an eye in all of it is called a barracán. When they are sowing them in drills they put the seed along-side the drill and then they plough the drill over the seed. That is not the way they sow them in the ridges. They put a lot of sgiollans into the pouch and they make a hole with the spade and throw in a sgiollan to it. Then they close the holes with a falliheen. That is made of two bits of timber. They get a handle and a block of timber and make a hole
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. potatoes (~2,701)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    Patrick Connolly
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Coolbane, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Mr Michael Connolly
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    53
    Address
    Coolbane, Co. Cork