School: Drumlease (roll number 15382)
- Location:
- Droim Lias, Co. Liatroma
- Teacher: Tomás Diolún
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- (continued from previous page)in a heap and covered with rushes. Then a coat of clay is put over the rushed to keep the frost away from the potatoes.
- In this locality where I reside the farmer plants his potato crop in the spring.First he carts out the manure to the field and spreads it on the surface of the land.Then he turns the sod with a plough or sometimes a (?).The farmer in this district generally(continues on next page)
- Collector
- May Gillen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ard an Chip Beag, Co. Liatroma
- Informant
- Mrs Gillen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ard an Chip Beag, Co. Liatroma