School: Kells (Parochial) (roll number 5062)
- Location:
- Kells, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Vera C. Hodges
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0703, Page 344
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- This farm that I am talking about has four acres in it; half of it is a potato crop.
This is how he got them to grow, first he got a wet day when he could not do anything and sat down and cut the Potatoes,
The next day he ploughed the field but of course you could use a spade like this (drawing) if it were a small garden. But this man uses a plough because it is a big garden, when he has ploughed it leaves humps and hollows and the humps are(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ernest Lougheed
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Church Street, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Stephen Payne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 50
- Occupation
- Farmer
