School: Cromán (B.) (roll number 12820)
- Location:
- Cromane, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Stiophán Ó Cobhthaigh
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- There are a lot of harmful weeds growing in the land. Bruim-fhéar is a very harmful weed.
It takes away all the manure drom the potatoes.
It is very hard to eradicate it.
It weakens the ground.
The chicken weed is another harmful weed.
It usually grows in the potatoes.
It is a cure for whooping cough when it is boiled.
The dock-leaves grow in tillage.
It is a cure for burn of a nettle.
It has a dark red strong root.
The praiseach-bhuidhe is a yellow weed like rape.
It burns mangolds.
There are yellow blossoms on it.
The crows foot is the name of another weed.
It is to be found in the gardens and in the fields when the oats is cut.
It has long roots and broad leaves. The caisearbhan is found growing on the ditches and in the fields.
It is plucked and cut up and mixed with pig's food.
Ivy grows on the ditches.
It has long roots and broad leaves.
When it is boiled it is used for taking stains off serge clothes.
The slanlus is a long slender green weed.
It is cut up and pounded for a sore hand.
It is a cure for a cut hand.
It stops the blood.John Shea VII Rang
Ó m'athair, Pádraig Ó Séaghdha, Na Dúmhacha, 50 bl.
- Collector
- John Shea
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Pádraig Ó Séaghdha
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 51
- Address
- Dooaghs, Co. Kerry
