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School: Leatbeg (roll number 16146)

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Leat Beg, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Mrs Peoples
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1091, Page 128

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    The names of the herbs or weeds that grow in this district are as follows
    Cold Foot
    Chick Weed
    Nettles
    Dockens
    Red Shanks
    Muggerts
    Cratae
    Buachalan Buidhe
    Pirl
    Yarr
    Thistles
    Sulegs
    Sgalegs
    Geel
    Day Nettles
    All these weeds destroy the land and make it very poor. Some weeds do not grow in bad ground they only grow in good clay.
    The names of the ones that grow in good clay
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Morrow
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Leat Beg, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    William Morrow
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    59
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Leat Beg, Co. Donegal