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School: Sraithíní (roll number 17145)

Location:
Sraheens, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
M. Ní Dhuinnshleibhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0121B, Page 02_004

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  1. Potatoes

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    We set potatoes every years. My father ploughs or dig the land and makes it in to ridges. My mother cuts the potatoes into slites. My father sticks them with a spade or steveen. if he is setting with a steveen I do the "goggering" that is I throw the slites in the hole then they are covered with a block. After a few weeks he puts manure on the ridges and clay over that. When the young stalks appear he
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. potatoes (~2,701)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Rita Padden
    Gender
    Female

  2. Herbs (continued)

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    the dandelions are boiled are a cure for hearts disease.
    Duileasc; is dried in the sun and then eaten.
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