School: Cloncovid
- Location:
- Cloncovet, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Savage
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- There are potatoes grown on our farm at home. There are about two and a half acres sown under potatoes each year. The amount does'nt vary much each year.
My father and sometimes a workman prepares the ground for them. The potatoes are sown in drills but most of the people sow them in ridges. First the ground is ploughed and cross-ploughed and harrowed and made into drills.
Then the manure is put in each alley and then the potatoes are dropped and(continues on next page)- Collector
- Annie Brady
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloncovet, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mrs Sheridan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloncovet, Co. Cavan