School: Carra
- Location:
- Carha, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: P. Ó Tonra
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- (continued from previous page)year. There is a cure in chicken-weed for a sore knee. If a person has a sore knee, the cure is to put some chicken-weed and a white linen cloth on it, and that is the cure. Moss is not a weed, but it grows on stones and long ago it was used for dying clothes. There is an old saying, A rolling stone gathers no moss.
- The names of weeds that does most harm to the land are Caupog's Thistles, Coltsfoot, Bauchlawn, Dandaline, Ferbawn and Forane. They are very harmful to the crops because they smother the stalks if they are not pulled. They will not let the stalks grow. They also take the moisture out of the land and so the crops have no moisture and they fail away.
The names of weeds that grow in good land are Thistles, Bauchlawns and Dandalines.
The names of weeds that grow in bad land are Caupogs Coltsfoot(continues on next page) - Collector
- May Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrownaglogh, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Thomas Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrownaglogh, Co. Mayo
