School: Dún Átha, Carraig an Chabhaltaigh
- Location:
- Doonaha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Ed J. Headtromóin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0633, Page 302
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- Here are the most usual kinds Sown here:-(Early Crop)
Leagues
Epicures
Golden Wonders
Champions
King Edward
Sharp's Express
Arran Pilots(Main Crop)
Kerrs Pinks (The most usual)
Eclipse (Very large & wet used for cows)
Arran Victors
Arran Banners
Dates
Majestic
Irish Queens
Leather coatsPotatoes set in Drills which are about 2 feet apart - the potatoes being about 1 foot apart in the drills. Farmyard manure. When stalks are over ground., They are "dressed", earth being drawn up to the tops of the Stalks. Later on they are "softened". Large potatoes are cut in "Sgiolláin" for seed. Most farmers now spray with Blue Stone & Washing Soda mixture though many do not.
early potatoes are set in Early March. Late Potatoes may be sown up to mid-May - generally they are all sown before 1st May.ridges are made in newly broken "Báns", potatoes being sown 3 abreast in each ridgeThe first early potatoes, are dug from 15th to 30th June. and these are mostly Epicures or Leagues or Flounders.
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