School: Kilmactranny (roll number 6385)
- Location:
- Cill Mhic Treana, Co. Shligigh
- Teacher: Cáit, Bean Uí Chasmháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0182, Page 074
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- A week on after the setting of them, the farmers be digging the furrows and breaking the big lumps so as to have the clay smooth, and fine.
After that they shake artificial manure over the ridges where the splits were put down in a row of three, then they cover the ridges with the smooth clay.
After about three weeks the buds of stalks begin to peep above the clay.
When the stalks are about a foot high the farmers spray them.
First of all the farmers get a forty gallon barrel of water, and steep blue stone in the barrel of water for a night.
The blue stone is put in a bag and suspended in the water, with a stick on the top of the barrel and the bag tied to the stick. When the bluestone is dissolved(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Jermyn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockadrehid, Co. Ros Comáin
- Informant
- Mr John Jermyn
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Knockadrehid, Co. Ros Comáin
