School: Mungraid (B.) Luimneach (roll number 14409)

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1. Setting Potatoes (continued)

   

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   and then with earth. They are removed or turned as the farmer calls it a couple of times during the Winter. The kinds of potatoes which grow best here are Champions and land leaguers, shamrocks.
   Starch was made long ago from potatoes.

   

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2. Churning

   

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   We have only one cow on our small farm of land, so on that account we have not much churning to do. Hardly any person here churns now. They sell all the milk at the creamery and buy butter for themselves there. We have a small glass churn now. It holds a gallon of cream and is worked by a beater. When the

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   Language

   English

   Informant

   John Mc Gann

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   52

   Address

   Mungairit, Co. Luimnigh