School: Tyholland (roll number 13339)
- Location:
- Táite Mhuileann an Úcaire, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Teacher: Deborah Freeman
![The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0951, Page 139](https://doras.gaois.ie/cbes/CBES_0951%2FCBES_0951_139.jpg?width=1600&quality=85)
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0951, Page 139
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Tyholland
- XML Page 139
- XML “The Potato Crop”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)The potatoes are sprayed, moulded, and kept free from weeds during the summer. They are dug in the autumn with the spade, the plough or the potato digger. They are gathered into baskets, put in pits in the ground and covered with clay.
Kerr's Pinks, Irish Queens, Champions, Victor Blues, Main Crop, Epicures, Whites, Dates ?? are some of the common varieties.- Collector
- Dorcas Beatty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Sallymount, Co. Mhuineacháin