School: Ballyfeeny (roll number 9468)
- Location:
- Cill Ghlais, Co. Ros Comáin
- Teacher: Cáit, Bean Uí Mhurthuile
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- (continued from previous page)to mould the potatoes twice and to spread them three or four times in order to prevent the blight from settling on them.
The early potatoes are generally dug for garland Sunday but all the res are dug in the harvest.
To dig the potatoes my father gets a spade and digs up the roots. Then the children come after them with buckets and some pick the big potatoes while the rest pick the small ones.
Then pits are made and the big potatoes are put in one pit with the small ones are put in another one.
the the pits are well covered with clay in order to prevent the frost and snow in reaching them.
- Collector
- Maureen Morley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baile Uí Fhíne, Co. Ros Comáin
