School: Kilbonane, Lios an Phúca (Beaufort) (roll number 5482)
- Location:
- Kilbonane, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Dll. Ó Clúmháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0458, Page 141
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- (continued from previous page)the juice was drank. The hemlock and the bonicyan are poisonous herbs. The dandelion was used as food for hens and the slaunlas was used as food for young turkeys. The black alder and hurds were used for dyeing clothes. The ivy was used for cleaning clothes.
- The thistle is the most harmful weed growing in the farm. In any crop it grows it ruins it because it sends down its roots deep into the soil, taking away the nourishment the crop requires. it is also very troublesome to pull it as there are thorns on it. The chicken-weed is also very troublesome. It generally grows in bunches and spreads its roots in all directions, covering up the crop. The names of the weeds that grow in good land are the dandelion, the dockleaf, the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nóra Ní Larcáin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lahard, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- David larkin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Lahard, Co. Kerry
