School: Shinrone (B.)
- Location:
- Shinrone, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: William Mac Mahon
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0819, Page 067
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- The "prashia weed", lambs-quarter, couch-grass, white-root, these weeds are harmful because they spread rapidly and choke the crops.
Thistles and ferns grow only where land is rich and fine. Prashia weed is found in bad land. The Dandelion juice is a drink which has to be boiled with brown sugar, it cures heart disease.
Marsh Mallow is a herb which grows in the fields is to be boiled and pounded and put on as a blister to cure pains called siactica
- Collector
- Eddie Feehan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Shinrone, Co. Offaly
