School: Mounttrenchard, Leamhchoill (roll number 2540)
- Location:
- Mounttrenchard, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Nuanáin
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- (continued from previous page)people have to spray them to prevent the blight.The potatoes are dug out in the end of September or the beginning of October. Those who have a large supply plough them out. They are left for a while in heaps in the garden. Then on a fine sunny day the are chosen and drawn into the haggard where they are pitted in the following way:_ A foundation is cut in the ground and the potatoes are nicely heaped in it. Then very dry hay or straw is put on the heap and over that a coat of soil is shovelled up to a depth about three inches. On top of this again they put a covering of rushes and then the whole thing is secured by tying with "sugháin" or hay-cords.The varieties of potatoes most common in this district are:- British Queens for the early kind and Kerrspinks for the main crop.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Crissie Noonan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mounttrenchard, Co. Limerick