School: Fuerty (roll number 16162)
- Location:
- Fuerty, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Freathaile
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- (continued from previous page)left about one foot apart on the manure. The drills are then closed and the potatoes are left to grow. In Harvest, when the stalks are turning yellow and the tubers easily shaken off, the potatoes are dug by means of a potatoe-digger or a spade. When dug, the large white tubers are heaped up and covered with hay, and the black ones are brought in to house to be given to the pigs.
Long ago it was not as easy to cultivate potatoes as now as the people had only wooden ploughs. Many of these ploughs are to be seen throughout the country yet. My father has still a very old wooden one-horse plough which was used in his grandfather's days.
Potatoes have uses other than feeding. Before out grand-mothers heard of Robin starch they had a way of their own for starching their linens. They(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brian Coyne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Fuerty, Co. Roscommon
