School: Clonmellon (B.) (roll number 9500)
- Location:
- Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P. Ó Droighneáin
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- (continued from previous page)of about seven or eight fork fulls at a time. When there is a couple of heaps in each drill, we spread it and the potatoes are dropped. Then the drills are closed my father pays the man so much for each day he was working. When the potatoes begins to sprout my father moulds them. In a few months after the moulding he sprays them and there will be no more bother until the digging time comes.(Tomás Mach Domhnaill from Seumais Mach Domhnaill, Cluain Mioláin)
The Wren Song
“The wren, the wren, the king of all the birds it was on St Stephen's Day he was caught in the forge although he is little his family is great.”
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- Tomás Mach Domhnaill
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Mach Domhnaill
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath
- a good beginning is half the work(continues on next page)