Scoil: Clonlara

Ar an leathanach seo

1. The Famous Digging of Ross (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   And drove them out of hand.
   They put them to the trace me boys
   To plough Van Diemen's land.
   The champion was imported from Scotland in 1880 by Parnell and his collegues. They were given out to the tenants by ticket according to your valuation, sixteen stone to each person that could pay for them, and they were given free to those that couldnt pay. They were given out at the unions. They were sowed each seed three feet apart. They manured them with some farmyard manure with the addition of lime, every farmer earned like for improving the land as the taking off of the fallow they practised in former time made the land poor.
   The potatoes grew wonderful, they were so big they could be taken to the pit in armfulls no need of a bucket or hamper and they were wonderful for food all floury. Those were the best potatoes they ever had and they are nearly as good as ever yet in some places.
   The land agitation went on for years trying to bring down the landlord, the agents that were the bad boy,s in some cases the landlord was absentee and the agent that was the cause of the trouble as where a tenant couldnt pay he would go to the agent asking time and he had bribe the agent. In this way the tenant was always at their mercy. If they

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Topaicí

   1. áit-spás-timpeallacht
      1. riaradh talún (~4,110)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Faisnéiseoir

   Malachy Dinneen

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   79

   Gairm bheatha

   Farmer (Léirítear teidil na ngairmeacha i mBailiúchán na Scol sa bhunteanga inar cláraíodh iad)

   Seoladh

   An Chill Mhór, Co. an Chláir