School: Baile Mhodáin (roll number 12011)
- Location:
- Bandon, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás Groves
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0314, Page 240
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- There are many weeds or herbs grown on the farm, the most common of which are, dockleaf, thistles, nettles, spurge, yarrow, daisies, clover, wild sage, dandelions, honeysuckle, cornflower, water mint, shamrock, tansy, scarlet pimpernel, foxglove, mushrooms, and horse-buttons.
The weeds that spread rapidly are thistles, dockleaf, nettles, yarrow, and horse-buttons. The seeds of these weeds get ripe in August and September, and are blown yards away by the wind, thus there are about a thousand or more weeds around where there was one the preceding year.
The weeds that grow on good land are thistles, nettles, clover, dockleaf, daisies, and wild sage. Yarrow, mushrooms, horse-buttons and tansy grow in poor land; while dandelions, scarlet pimpernel, spurge, foxglove and honeysuckle grow beside country roads. The herbs to be found near the river bank or stream are watercress,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Fred Wolfe
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilbrogan, Co. Cork
