School: Cill Cúlach
- Location:
- Kilcooly, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Séamus Mac Lochlainn
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- (continued from previous page)also lived in Buckstown he was married to Bridget Quinn who lived in Kilmeen. She wore a bonnet and cabe, she was not long married when she died and he got married twice after that. The third time he was getting married the ground was covered with snow and the boys pegged him with snowballs and he said he never would get married again on a snowy day.
- The wild fern is a herb used for the liver.
Riolleog Rig is good for mourn in calves.
Chicken weed is good for swollen. It is a very harmful weed and it spreads very much.
Couch-grass commonly known as scutch-grass is one of the most harmful weeds to the land and to the farmer because he finds it very hard to banish it.
The butter-cup is another very(continues on next page)
