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School: Carrigbyrne (roll number 4479)

Location:
Carrickbyrne, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Máire Cuirtéis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0882, Page 557

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    “The farming implements which we use at home, are, a spade, a shovel, a pick, a sprong, a hoe, a scythe...”

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    Chill is used for ploughing up plough hard ground
    Double is used for making drills plough
    Roller is used for breaking lumps of clay.
    Binder is used for cutting corn and tying it in bundles.
    Seed
    Harrow is used for harrowing seed.
    Chain is used for taking off grass
    Harro I off ploughed fields.
    Iron is used for harrowing hard Harrow ground
    Scuffle is used for softening up the furrows of drills
    Sprayer is used for spraying potatoes so that the blight would not come on.
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nick French
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Raheevarren, Co. Wexford
    Informant
    David French
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Raheevarren, Co. Wexford