School: Coill na Leac
- Location:
- Kilnaleck, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Mac Geibheannaigh
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- XML “The Digging of the Potatoes”
- XML “The Setting of the Potatoes”
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- Collector
- Bridget Newman
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derrylina, Co. Cavan
- The way we set our potatoes is. We plough and harrow the ground, and then make drills out of it. Then we put manure in it, we also put bone-manure in it. We cut the potatoes into two or three splits, and puts them in the drills. Then we close the drills. We do not get potatoes from other lands to set. We usually set our(continues on next page)