School: Inistioge (B.) (roll number 1916)
- Location:
- Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Máirtín Breathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0859, Page 190
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- The most harmful weeds on my ___ are:-
Thistle, dock, sorrel and bagwort.
Thistles grow on rich land.
Sorrel is a very bad weed, it makes the land poor and the soil need lime
Docks grow in all types of land.
Bagwort grows on strong land. - Collector
- Patrick O' Keeffe
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mr James O' Keeffe
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 46
- Address
- Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny
- We sow three quarters of an acre every year under potatoes. Some years the amount increases but it never decreases. The potatoes are first sown on the flat, and in the end of May we dig between them and take the weeds from between the rows of potatoes. Then we(continues on next page)
