School: Kilmagner, Mainistir Fhearmuighe (roll number 11337)
- Location:
- Kilmagner, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Scannail
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- (continued from previous page)spread rapidly too, and farmers must keep a watchful eye on them to keep them cut down. It is believed that when thistles are seen growing very high and strong in a field the land is good. When a field is covered with daisies it is a good sign that the land is sweet and pleasing to the taste. The dandelion grows on bad land, the furze grow and thrive well on sandy land and the rushes grow on marshy wet land.
Water grass grows in streams. It is used instead of vegetables. It is brough home first and all grass picked out of it. Then it is boiled with meat. Old people believe that nettles used three times as vegetables(continues on next page)
