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School: Ladhar (C.), Bán-Tír (roll number 8665)

Location:
Lyre, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Síle, Bean Uí Chéilleachair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0361, Page 096

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    sods in width. These sods were broken with a grubber. This was called hacking. Boys and girls came with máilins full of skillanes and they made holes in the ridges with spades, One boy came after the spreaders and closed the holes with a dung-fork or shovel. When the stalks were above the ground the farmer dug the furrows with a spade. He next raised the earth to the stalks and after a month it had to be raised to them again.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. potatoes (~2,701)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Cáit Ní Chéilleachair
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lyre, Co. Cork
    Informant
    James Kelleher
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Lyre, Co. Cork