School: Ferbane (Convent)
- Location:
- Ferbane, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Sr Patrick
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0814, Page 030
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- (continued from previous page)ground for potatoes. He ploughs it first in the Winter months and leaves it until Spring when he "tills" it. This consists of re - ploughing, harrowing and rolling the soil. This is repeated three or four times. Re - ploughing is called "back - stirring" because instead of being ploughed from end to end of the field as was done at first the soil is ploughed crosswise to cut the "scrapes." When the final rolling is done the drills are opened.
"Putting out the stuff" is the next part of the work. Loads of farm - yard manure are spaced in rows in the drills. A "row" of drills is about eleven or twelve. When(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret M. Keena
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Creggan, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Mrs Keena
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Creggan, Co. Offaly
