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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0882, Page 126

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  1. New Potatoes

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    It is a custom which is rarely omitted to eat new potatoes on the twenty ninth of June. They are eaten with butter and are not peeled. The people wish for some thing and say "God grant that we may be alive this time nest year". "God's grace come to us" is also said.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. butter and churns (~3,280)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peggy Saunders
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Wexford, Co. Wexford
    Informant
    Mrs Staunton
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Wexford, Co. Wexford