School: Drom an Eargail, Áth Treasna (roll number 10361)
- Location:
- Dromanarrigle, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Caoimh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0355, Page 230
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - We set about an acre and a half of potatoes at home. The ground is often manured before it is turned. Wooden ploughs were made about sixty years ago but they are not used at all at the present day. Potatoes are dug out with the potato digger nowadays and those that have not that they dig them out with a spade or plough them out with a plough. They are then sorted and put into pits.
There are many varieties of potatoes such as:- Aran Banners, Irish Queen, Early Rose, Kerry Pinks, Champion, Epocures and lots of other seeds. It was Sir Walter Raleigh that brought the first potato into Ireland at Youghal(continues on next page)
