School: Coill na Leac
- Location:
- Kilnaleck, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Mac Geibheannaigh
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- The potatoes are usually dug with a spade in the month of October. Most of the farmers nowadays dig them with a potato digger. About nine or ten men are needed for the digger, it takes one man leading the horses, another man keeping the plough straight, and the rest gathering the potatoes. They gather the good potatoes first, and piles them in a great heap, they keep doing that, until the heap is about 8 ft long, then they cover them with rushes, and outside the rushes they put clay, being about one foot deep. The small potatoes are gathered, and they are covered the same as the good potatoes, and then used for feeding pigs and hens, while the good potatoes are put in a house in January and kept for seed.
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- Collector
- Sean O' Hare
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Hackelty, Co. Cavan