School: Rockwood, Béal Átha an Dá Chab
- Location:
- Derreennaclogh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Eibhlín Ní Chorcora
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- The most harmful weeds growing on our farm are: - cashavaun, docks, thistles, cipoags, bog lilies, banaceean, ferns, bulrushes, prishac wee. Other herbs are wild sage, ribleaf, smut, water cress, penny leaves, camomile, nettles, mac an dá h - abha and bisom.
Cashavaun grows only in dry land, usually in meadows, docks grow in dry land; thistles in good land; bog lilies in wet marshy places; bulrushes in wet bogs, and ferns in bare hollows and heights.
Cashavaun is chopped up and mixed with pigs' and hens' food. It keeps the hens from contracting sickness.
Thistles and cipoags grow in corn. They soak all the manure and grow higher than the corn and choke it. Cipoags spread rapidly. The wind scatters their seeds about the ground. The seeds then take root and grow. The thistles and cipoags are pulled in May. Horses eat thistles and the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen O' Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derrylahard, Co. Cork
- Informant
- James Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derrylahard, Co. Cork
