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School: Cluainín (roll number 13231)

Location:
Cloneen, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Éamonn Ó Néill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0556, Page 053

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    The farmers plough and harrow and roll the land and make drills. The farmers wife cuts the potatoes and the men lay them in the furrow.
    Then they spread the farm manure and close the drills. Farmers grow from one to two acres of potatoes each year.
    During the summer months the farmers earth and spray the potatoes. Then in October they plough them out or dig them. The farmers help each other by sending some of his men to another farm near by for a few days, and that farmer sends back his own men to him for a few days. The men pick the potatoes in
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. potatoes (~2,701)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Josie Ryan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Rossane, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    James Ryan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    52
    Address
    Rossane, Co. Tipperary