School: Druim an Easbuig
- Location:
- Drumanespick, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Á. Ní Dhálaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1010, Page 263
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- Broscan and Silver Weed
There grows long red threads from the silver wee and it spreads. It is a very bad weed.
Goose Tongue :
This weed is in the shape of the tongue of a goose and it spreads.
Red Shank ;
This weed is so called because it has red shanks. The red shank grows in rank land. Some of the red shank grows to the height of eighteen inches and other red shank only grows to the height of three or four inches. It begins to grow in spring and withers away in autumn. It is very bad week in the potato ridge.(continues on next page)
