School: Paddock, Mountrath (roll number 13173)
- Location:
- Paddock, Co. Laois
- Teacher: A. Ó Dubhlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0825, Page 117
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- The name of the most harmful weeds in this district are docks, blind nettle,couch grass,chickweed, groundsel, spunk, praiseac and clevone, They are harmful because they shed seeds in plentiful which grow again. Then when they grow they not only deprive the growing crop of food, but sometimes smother it so that it is not able to grow at all. The most common herbs used for medicinal purposes are the Dandelion, the Black buttom.
