School: Stonetown, Louth (roll number 16431)
- Location:
- Stonetown Lower, Co. Louth
- Teacher: P. Ó Dubháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0668, Page 261
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- All the potatoes sown in this district are now sown in drills except in very rare cases, ridges are made in very small cottage gardens. In early Winter, the ground is ploughed with an ordinary single plough and remains untotched till early Spring. About the begining of March it is cross-ploughed and cultivated with an iron spring tooth cultivator and then harrowed with an ordinary wooden harrow or perhaps an iron one. The scutch is then gathered if necessary and if the ground is lumpy, a heavy wooden plank or an old stable door is drawn over it to break the lumps.(continues on next page)