School: Lattoon
- Location:
- Lattoon, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Ó Hiorraí
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- (continued from previous page)potatoes and then he throws them into a bag. The potatoes are stored in pits. A pit is made by digging a hole in the ground and then throwing the potatoes into it. Then they place rushes over them and over them they place a quantity of clay.
The local names given to the potatoes are, the Queens, the Scots, the Aran Banners, the Aran Victors, the Kere-pinks and Epicures. Other local names given to the potatoes are "dig me when the male is out", "dig me or I will burst the ridge" and the "holy terrors". Most of those are gone out of existence nowadays.The types of potatoes that grow best in this locality are the "Kere-pinks" and the "Epicures".
In olden times the people procured all the starch that they needed from the potatoes.- Collector
- Rose Mc Gennis
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coragh, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr P. Mc Gennis
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coragh, Co. Cavan