School: Garr

Location:: Garr, Co. Offaly
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The most harmful weeds are – docks, chicken-weed, praiseac, which grows in oats & wheat; thistles; cockles – with a thorny head which fastens itself of one's clothes, black-heads, & "buacalláins" or tall yellow weeds, & "red soldiers" or wild poppies which grow in corn. They are harmful both, because they spread rapidly & because they impoverish the soil. Buttercups & clover grow where land is rich, and daisies where land is poor.
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1. activities
  medical practice
  folk medicine (~11,815)
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The Dandelion and Yarrow boiled together and made into a drink is a cure for the yellow jaundice.
Long ago they used to boil the heath and dye the

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