School: Belvoir, Kilkishen
- Location:
- Belvoir, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Chadhla
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- (continued from previous page)he leaves them there for a few days He then raises them with a plough called a "double boarded" plough
He sprays them twice or three times with blue stone and washing soad He hoes them and grips them several times during the year
When digging times comes he generally gets a "mecill" and a digging maching called a "potate digger" He puts the potatoes in pits and chosen them an he diggs the small one are put in a pit for themselves generally knows as "cratáns" and the big ones in a pit for themselves.
The people buy the spades the don't make them There are timper ploughs in the country yet carpenters make them When culting the potatoes for see they leave the(continues on next page)