School: Feevagh (roll number 9517)
- Location:
- Feevagh, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Seán Ó Bhaldraithe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0269D, Page 04_011
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“The potatoes are dug with spades both in the drills and ridges. ...”
The potatoes are dug with spades both in the drills and ridges. I help to pick them. We pick the sound, big ones first, and put them in a pit in the field.
This pit is made about a foot deep and two feet wide, and as long as may be needed. We then pick up the small ones and black ones and put them in a pit for themselves.
We cover the pits with scraws, over which we put a layer of clay. The potatoes are then safe for the winter. We grow the following kinds of potatoes.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen Naughton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cartron, Co. Roscommon