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   the nettle. Nettles are used for feeding turkeys. It grows in the fields. It is a green plant. There is another growing called the flaggar. It grows in good land. It has a little shell on it. In Autumn the shells ripen and they fall off and grow again into big flaggars.

   There is an herb growing called garlic. It is sowed to cure cattle when they would have black leg. There is an herb growing called the black head. It grows in meadows. It makes hay rotten and black. There is another weed growing called the thistle. It has a green weed with thorns on it. Thistles are boiled for pigs. Thistles grow in meadows and in fields.

   

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2. Herbs

   

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   The most harmful weed growing is the docken-leaf it grows in meadows and it has little seeds on it then after a while the seeds fall to the ground and the seeds spread and grow up into big docken leaves

   Nettles and chicken weed are the next harmful. Another harmful weed is the thistle for it spreads very quickly, and makes the soil very poor. Nettles and thistles are often to be found

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   Topics

   1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. cleachtas an leighis
         1. leigheas dúchasach (~11,815)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Maureen Regan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Baile Maí Bile, Co. na Gaillimhe

   Informant

   Mr Thomas Regan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Baile Maí Bile, Co. na Gaillimhe