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School: Mín a Ghabhann (Meenagowan) (roll number 16823)

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Mín an Ghabhann, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Séamus Ó Glacáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1054B, Page 06_035

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    Mostly all the people around here put down potatoes every year. It is regularly the men of the house that put them down. It is drills mostly they all make. And why they change it to drills was the ridges were too sore on the seed and the drills only take half the amount the ridges take. The first thing the people do is to delve the ground
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. potatoes (~2,701)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Anna Ní Méallaigh
    Other names
    Anna Ní Méallaigh
    Annie Melley
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Raithnigh, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Peter McDaid
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Raithnigh, Co. Donegal