1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Killoughter

School: Killoughter

Location:
Killoughter, Co. Wicklow
Teacher:
Máire Ní Bhreitheamhan
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0927, Page 067

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0927, Page 067

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Killoughter
  2. XML Page 067
  3. XML “The Potato Crop”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. The Potato Crop

    Share Share Post
    Potatoes are grown on the farm. The farmers sow about two or three acres of potatoes. Sometimes if there was a bad crop of potatoes they would sow less potatoes the next year and if there was a good crop they would sow more potatoes the following year.
    The ground is manured before it is ploughed. Some men put bedding out of the cowhouse and others buy artificial manure. The farmer has men working for him
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. potatoes (~2,701)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Crean
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cronykeery, Co. Wicklow