School: Twomilehouse (roll number 2284)
- Location:
- Twomilehouse, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Tomás Bineidh
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- (continued from previous page)plough cuts through the drills causing the clay to fall in on the potatoes and cover them.
Then the potatoes are left until the stalks are about six inches above the ground. Then we ourselves weed them with our hands, and as we go along, we leave the weeds in the bottom of the drills.
When all the drills are weeded, we run along each drill with a fork and bring all the weeds down to one end.
After about two days we mould them with a plough.- Collector
- James Curran
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Johnstown or Dunshane, Co. Kildare