School: Ballyglass (roll number 14642)
- Location:
- An Baile Glas Thiar, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: (ní thugtar ainm)
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- (continued from previous page)they them and they leave an eye in
every set. Then they sow them
and they put a little clay over them and
after that they put some manure over
them. The local people very seldom help one an other sowing the potatoes except in cutting the corn.
When the potatoes are grown
up above the drills they weed them and they put the clay up with them.
They dig them in the Autumn with
ploughs and they seperate them out from
the clay and the children pick into cans and from that into the cart and then they store them in the pits Then they put hay outside them and clay outside that again
Those are the various kinds of(in margin of page, accompanied by a drawing: This the drawing of a spade)(continues on next page)- Collector
- Paddy Moylan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ráth Choscraigh, Co. na Gaillimhe