School: Cluain Dá Iomaire (roll number 14801)

Location:
Cloondahamper (Brown), Co. Galway
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Raghallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0080, Page 286

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  3. XML “Weeds”
  4. XML “Signs of Good and Bad Land”

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  1. There are many different kinds of weeds such as, the dock thistle chicken weed, glórán, bráisteach, áinne, bliscán, nettle fern, red knee, rag weed, black weed, water-cress, and crows foot.
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  2. 1. A dock-leaf grows in very good land.
    2. A thistle grows in very good land.
    3. Chicken weed grows in mossy land.
    4. A glórán grows in good land.
    5. A nettle grows in the best of land.
    6. A bliscán grows in good land and the people ate this weed during the
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Katie Cunningham
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tigreenaun, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Willie Cunningham
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Tigreenaun, Co. Galway