School: Bigstone, Baltinglas (roll number 14643)
- Location:
- Ballyraggan, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Héilighe
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- The most harmful weeds grow in the potatoes and oats and wheat and beet Their names are praiseach, the wire weed, and the chicken weed, the dock and the thistle.
Herbs usually grow where land is good. The dock and the thistle grow on poor land Long ago the people used to make ointment from lard and herbs This ointment cured burns.
The most harmful weed is the spunk and the chicken weed. The chicken weed has a red colour. The chickens are fond of it. It grows on the side of the drill. It grows on the beet drill most. Praiseach grows only on bad land. It has a yellow colour and its root is poison
The spunk(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maggie Foley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrigeen North, Co. Kildare
- Informant
- Mr Foley
- Gender
- Male
