School: Coill na Leac
- Location:
- Kilnaleck, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Mac Geibheannaigh
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- When the manure is spread on the ridges. The ridge is about a yard wide, and a slanting brow on each side of it. The potatoes are dropped on the ridges about one foot between them. There are three rows of potatoes down the ridge. The clay is put on them with a spade and the furrow is about one foot wide. The names of the potatoes which are set in the district are,
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