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FARMING 12

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Summary: Setting Potatoes

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This photograph was taken in the Glens of Antrim in 1900. It shows how potatoes were sown in rigs or ‘lazy beds’, and this was a very common sight in most parts of Ireland in the decade preceding the famine.

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