School: Doirín an Lomáin (roll number 14235)
- Location:
- Derreennalomane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán de Barra
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- Potatoes are grown on my farm. We generally sow about an acre of land. My father prepares the land. The potatoes are sown in drills, and from twenty to thirty tons of farmyard manure and six cwt. of artificial manure are put in the drills.
The ground is ploughed with an iron plough, and then harrowed, and then it is ploughed into drills. Wooden ploughs were used about fifty years ago, but they are not used now. Potatoes sown in drills are sprouted in boxes before setting them. They are then set in the drills. The drills are then closed with a plough. About four or five weeks after setting them they are earthed. During the summer months they are sprayed with a mixture of bluestone, washing soda and water to prevent a disease called blight which attacks the leaves. The potatoes are sprayed three times during the summer months. In Autumn they are ploughed out with a plough. They are then picked into bags and carried home in cars. Sometimes they are put in pits in a field.
- Collector
- Kathleen Barry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathruane Beg, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Patrick Barry
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Rathruane Beg, Co. Cork
