School: Mullinahone (C.) (roll number 15363)
- Location:
- Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire Ní Shéaghdha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0560, Page 305
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- In olden times wheat was sown in ridges. This method prevented the land from being water-logged as the surplus was drained off in the furrows between the ridges.
- Formerly set in ridges. When a farmer wished to 'break' a grass field he simply set the potatoes on the grass - three rows in each ridge. He then made a furrow between every three rows, and with the clay which he unearthed in the furrows he covered the potatoes. When the potatoes were ploughed up in the Autumn the field was 'broken'.
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- Collector
- Mary Gleeson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilvemnon, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- John Kickham
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballydavid, Co. Tipperary
