School: Sraithíní (roll number 17145)
- Location:
- Sraheens, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: M. Ní Dhuinnshleibhe
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- (continued from previous page)The water in which Dandelions are boiled is a cure for heart diseases.DuileascDuileasc is dryer in the sun and then eaten.
- We set potatoes every year. My father ploughs or digs the land and makes ridges
My mother cut the potatoes into slits, my father sticks them with a spade if he is seting with a steven I will do the goggering that is I throw the slits into the hole Then they are covered with a block.
After a few weeks he put manure on the ridges and then put clay over that When the young stalks appear he again put clay on the ridges this is called moulding. In June or July before the blight appears they are sprayed with(continues on next page)