School: Shallee, Tulach Sheasta (roll number 6245)
- Location:
- Shallee (Coughlan), Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire Ní Chonchubhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0538, Page 182
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- The most harmful weeds on our farm are the thistle, the chicken weed, the dock root, and the buachallán. The thistle is a harmful weed because it grows in gardens and meadows and destroys the hay and crops. The(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Behan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Aughboy, Co. Tipperary
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- Mrs Behan
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- (continued from previous page)they do seven "rounds" about the well and recite the Rosary. Many people have been cured at the well. People are cured of a pain in the stomach and a pain in the head and of sore eyes. The way they get cured is by drinking the water and rubbing it to sores. Many things are left at the well such as crutches, glasses, medals, beads and relics. When people go there they usually see a little fish in the well. There is a tree over the well.
