School: An Grianán (Mount Temple) B.
- Location:
- Mount Temple, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: S. Ó Riain
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0746, Page 051
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- My father sows about five roods of potatoes. Some years he sows an acre and a half and other years he only sows an acre. My father prepares the land. He sows the potatoes in the fields in drills, and the potatoes in the garden in ridges.When he is sowing them in drills, he ploughs and harrows the land first. Then he ploughs and harrows it again, and then he opens the drills. Then he carts out the manure into the field, and spreads it in the valleys of the drills, and then the potatoes are spread and the drills are closed by means of a plough.My father says that wooden ploughs were used about forty years ago There are none of them left now.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Doyle
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Magheramore, Co. Westmeath
