School: Grangeford, Tullow
- Location:
- Grangeford, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Leanne Doyle
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0907, Page 300
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- (continued from previous page)and bottled for use. The greatest blood purifier is derived from the young nettle in the late Spring or early Summer boiled with young cabbage.
- Preshaugh and Scutch Grass are the most harmful weeds growing on our farm. Both spread rapidly and impoverish the soil. Preshaugh is a very destructive weed in corn as it grows as high as the corn and makes it hard to be saved. Scutch Grass travels in thick roots and branches under the ground. When the ground is ploughed and harrowed it comes to the top and is gathered off into heaps and burned but in the time of the great War was bought in Carlow at £4 per ton to make iodine for the British Forces. Foxtail is a sign of poor land and rushes grow only in bogs. A field covered with buttercups is a sign of rich cream. Nettles grow on ditches and are used as a vegetable instead of cabbage and if eaten in April(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Katie Byrne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Grangeford, Co. Carlow
- Informant
- George Byrne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Johnstown, Co. Carlow
