School: Errew G.N.S. (roll number 13261)
- Location:
- Errew, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Brígid Nic Eoin
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- My father sows an acre and a quarter of potatoes. He prepares the land with his horse and plough and he manures the land with farmyard manure and fertilizer.
He sows a half-acre of potatoes on the lea. These are sown with the spade and they are called ridges and about three roods of drills made with a double mouldboard plough.
In olden times wooden ploughs were used but not at the present day.
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- Collector
- Nora O' Grady
- Gender
- Female
