School: Ráth Ciaragáin (Mount Bolus)
- Location:
- Rathkeeragan, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: S. Mac Giolla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0809, Page 100
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - We sow potatoes at home. We sow about two acres of potatoes. The names of the potatoes are Golden Wonders, Arn Banners, and Epicures. We usually sow them on stubble ground because it does be manured since the year before. My father and my uncle sow the potatoes. When they are going to sow them they grub the stubble ground and then plough it make drills and plant them and close the drills then
- We grow potatoes at home about two or three acres every year. My brothers gets the ground ready for the potatoes. They plough the ground with a plough. They plough a stubble field for(continues on next page)
