School: Clifferna
- Location:
- Clifferna, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Sister Mc Ardle
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- There are many different kinds of herbs and they grow in different places.
Rushes grow in wet land and are not to be found in dry land. Cattle or no other animals eat rushes and the people don't like to see them growing anywhere. In olden times people used to make candles from them but they are not needed for that purpose now-a-days.
The dandelion is to be found mostly in a field where oats is growing. The people gather it and cut it into small pieces and give it to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Sexton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Altbeagh, Co. Cavan
