School: Tarmon (roll number 13997)
- Location:
- An Tearmann, Co. Liatroma
- Teacher: P. Layden
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- (continued from previous page)Other one comes on closing the holes. The farmers dig the potatoes in the Autumn and put them in a heap in the field. Some people make the ridges with a plough. Some farmers make a big hole in the ground and put the potatoes into it and cover them again, but that is not done in this district. I never dug potatoes. Sometimes potatoes are destroyed by frost and blight. There are several different kinds of potatoes.
- Informant
- Mrs Guihen
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Tamhnaigh Chorrach, Co. Liatroma