School: Drom Dhá Liag (C.) (roll number 12230)
- Location:
- Drimoleague, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhrisceoil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0302, Page 172
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- (continued from previous page)when they got ploughs. First the manure was spread on the field and then four sods were turned together to make the ridge. A trench about a foot wide was left between every two ridges. These ridges were hacked with a grafán (a mattock) to make the top smooth. The they got the sciollaín (seed potatoes) with an eye in every sciollán. With a spade they stick the seed. Three sciollaín in the breadth of the ridge. The holes are closed with a wooden implement called a "failicín".
During the famine years people only just cut the eyes out of the potatoes for the sciollaín and ate the rest of the potatoes
