School: Naomh Peadar, Droichead Átha (roll number 11072)
- Location:
- Drogheda, Co. Louth
- Teacher: S. Mac Maoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0680, Page 119
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- (continued from previous page)and cover them with the clay that was taken out and to make it flat. This way is called "flats".
There used to be wooden ploughs with the board (the thing for turning the soil) made of iron The spades that are used are bought in a shop.
The potatoes to be sown have to be picked to see that none are bad. They have to be fairly small. Big potatoes can be cut into as many pieces as there are eyes on the potato. The cut is covered with lime.
When potatoes are a little above ground they are grubbed with grubber to shape up the soil. Then a hoe is used to break up any lumps in the soil. Then a two boarded plough is used to put up the soil around the stems of the potatoes. The potatoes are dug with spades or with a pot-at-o-digger.
Potatoes are stored in a shed and cover with straw. The person who is storing them must make sure there are no bad ones in them as a bad one makes the ones beside it bad.
The potato called Kerr's Pink grows best here for a main crop, but British Queen is best for an early garden crop. Very small potatoes are called "pawreens" or rubbish potaotes.
- Collector
- Louie Mathews
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballymakenny, Co. Louth
