School: Castlecoote (roll number 6344)
- Location:
- Castlecoote, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Ghabhláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0263, Page 169
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- 1. Horsetail grows in meadow in wet bad land.
2. Rushes, reeds and flaggers thrive in swampy marshy land.
3. Lambs' Quarters with red flowers grow through the potatoes and on ditches. The Blight which ruins potatoes is supposed to settle first on these weeds.
4. Crows' Feet are bad.
5. Red Heads.
6. Thistles grow on good land.
7. Nettles are useful for feeding young turkeys. They are considered very good blood purifiers and are boiled and eaten as a vegetable in spring.
8. Dockleaf cures stings of nettles. This weed is given to young fowl when mixed with meal.
9. Blackheads grow in meadows. They are bad for hay.
10. Chicken weed
11. Fuarawns.
12. Ferns.
13. Robin-round-the-hedge grows on ditches and hedges.
14. Wild mint used for flavouring sauces.
15. Grunkle.
16. Bog Cotton shows there is no more turf where it grows. It is usually found in turf bogs.(continues on next page)
