School: An Baile Mór (roll number 11193)
- Location:
- Ballymore Lower, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: D. E. Tate
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- Weeds grow everywhere. There are a lot of weeds on every farm. They grow in good, bad and wet lands. Wild kale in laboured land. Geel Goyan is a yellow daisy. Dockens and thistles grow everywhere. Coltfoot and Crowsfoot grow among cabbages and day nettles and red
root grow in some farms.
Cockoo Potatoes, Rasberries, Cornamila, Blac Berries, Blenshuks, all these can be eaten.
Wild Daisies, Wild primroses, Wild Blue Bells, Robin-run- the-hedge, Jack-at-the-hedge are wild flowers.
These weeds are weeded out of the ground for they keep the crops from growing, and eat(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Pearl Stewart
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Tilly Stewart
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Faugher, Co. Donegal
