School: Ceapach an tSeagail
- Location:
- Cappataggle, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Antoine Ó Monacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0045, Page 0069
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- (continued from previous page)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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- Collector
- Maureen Regan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballymabilla, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mr Thomas Regan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballymabilla, Co. Galway
