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School: Ballyglass (roll number 14642)

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Ballyglass West, Co. Galway
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0036D, Page 07_004

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    are brought in the shop and they aren't made locally.
    The people cut the potatoes and they leave an eye in every slit and the potatoe that there is no eye in it they throw it away.
    The people very seldom help each other in sowing the potatoes.
    The people weed potatoes in the Summer and they put the clay up with them.
    They dig them in the Autumn and they open them with a plough and a person comes after the plough picking them into buckets.
    They pick them into buckets and when the buckets
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. potatoes (~2,701)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bridie Howley
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lavally, Co. Galway