School: Cloncarneel
- Location:
- Cloncarneel, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Bhreacáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0695, Page 235
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- (continued from previous page)washing sodo and water to keep off the blight. They are dug in September and October with a potatoe differ or a plough. The men and women and children pick the potatoes out of the earth. They are stored in pits. First they are covered with straw and clay. The following are the kinds of potatoes grown in our district:
Arran, Chiefs, Arran Banners, Arran Victors, Shamrocks, Presidents, Irish Queens, British Queens, Epicures, Up-to-dates, White beauties and Black-and-Tans.
