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[local_hero09]

Anyone know what a lumper potato is? I'm in this Modern Irish history class and apparently that was the big potato before the Irish Famine. Anyway, I looked it up and while wikipedia had no answers, it did refer me to a page of Irish cuisine...which makes me think that they (whoever "they" are) secretly know what it is but don't want to tell any of

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[johnnyendless]

By the early 1800s, the population had reached such a level (over 8 million by the start of the famine) that many of the farmers and farm labourers became almost wholly dependant on the potato. By the 1830s, 30% to 35% of Irish people depended on the potato as their main source of food. After 1810, another new breed of potato was introduced by farmers in the south-west. Called the Lumper Potato, it required little manure and could tolerate poorer soils. It spread from Munster into Connaught. On the eve of the famine, the Lumper had made inroads into western Leinster, although it had not yet spread into eastern Leinster or Ulster.

[local_hero09]

but do you have a picture of it?