School: Ballyhaise (2)
- Location:
- Ballyhaise, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhaolagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0973, Page 237
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- The weeds growing on my father's farm at home are the chicken-weed, deaf-nettle, red-shank, black-heads, crow-foot, scutch-grass, "baughlons", burdocks, nettle, spratt, dockens, cuckoo-sarl, bishop-weed, meadow-sweet, mints, ferns, rushes, dandelion, and thistle.
The dockens are the most harmful weed, because (it spreads') the seeds spreads and destroy the ground.
The bishop weed is harmful also because it spreads. The baughlons, the rushes and the dockens grow only on bad land.
The rushes are very useful for bedding animals.
The dandelion makes good medicine. The medicine is good for the stomach. The meadow-sweet is good for pains. The way you use it. Get the roots of them and boil them, and take the juice out of them and sweeten it with sugar and drink it. It is good for the kidneys also.
The dockens are good for curing stings of a nettle. The nettles are good(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bella Mullen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ragaskin, Co. Cavan
