School: Newtownanner, Cluain Meala (roll number 1559)
- Location:
- Newtownanner Demesne, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Proinnsias Ó Corcoráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0568, Page 143
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- The nice sized potatoes are chosen first before they are cut. They are cut into what they call sciolans and an eye or two are left in them. Lime is put on them then to heal up the wound of the cut and also it prevents insects from injuring the potato in the land. Then the drills are made and people go along and throw a small share of clay on them with a shovel. Other people set them in ridges five sod ones. That would take three sciolans in the breadth of it. They would set them with a spade in the ridges. They put manure on them then, spread it and close them then. In the olden times it was all ridges thay had and they used to burn the ridges what they call baténs. Women used to set them and they would have a bag on their side hanging from their shoulder sticking their sciolans with their spades. The men would cut the trenches and dig them and manure them and shovel them as well.
- Collector
- Mary Fitzgerald
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Priorstown, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Patrick O' Gorman
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
