School: Druim an Easbuig
- Location:
- Drumanespick, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Á. Ní Dhálaigh
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- (continued from previous page)potatoes grow earlier than others. From July to September potatoes are dug but the digging is never completed until September.Potatoes are dug and left in pits for a couple of months. Then they are drawn to the farmyard where they are stored in a house for the winter months. During the winter, they are picked and turned.
- Some farmers dig their potatoes with a digger; others with a spade and more take them out with a plough. The digger is the speediest: Some couple of farmers join (swop) among each other, this is all work together with one man until he is finished.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Susan Clarke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumanespick, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr John Sheanon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumanespick, Co. Cavan