School: Ballinvally (B.) (roll number 931)
- Location:
- Ballinvally, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: T. Healy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0723, Page 248
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- (continued from previous page)into a bucket and then put into a pit. The way the pit is made to make a furrow in the ground. The furrow is about a foot deep and a yard wide. When it is filled with potatoes you cover them with straw and put bog sods over it. After a month you bring them home and leave them in a pit in the haggard. The best potatoes grown here are Pinks and Champions.
- There are potatoes grown in our garden. There is a half an acre of land under the potatoes every year. My father prepares the ground. The ground is not manured in any(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Glennon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Delvin, Co. Westmeath
