School: Garrangrena, Borrisoleigh (roll number 3282)
- Location:
- Garrangrena Upper, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Eibhlin, Bean Uí Chonghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0544, Page 048
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- The most harmful weeds are:-
"Dock-leaves" Buchlans" Thistles" Black-buttons" "Virgin's thumb" Wart weed" Nettles" Scutch-grass chicken weed" dandelion" Crow-foot" Spunk" Ferns" "Yellow-Daisy" Sorrel". All these are harmful because they spread quickly and impoverish the soil.
The thistle and the dock and the buhalans grow in good land.
The spunk and wild nettle grow in bad land.
The wart(h) weed is used to take away warts.
The Virgin's thumb is used for stopping blood.
People and fowl use nettles.
Dandelion is used for pigs.
The juice of a dock-leaf is good for the sting of a nettle. If you eat (a) nettles three times in May you will not get any sickness for the year.
Garlic is a cure for tooth-ache(s) by putting it around the wrist. Marsh-Mallows are used for making a plaster; the leaves are boiled and thrown away and the juice is used.
Leaves of laurels are good for flavouring purposes.
There is a little flower called forget-me-not: it grows wild on wet marshy places. A little boy and girl were playing one day near a river, and the girl saw this little(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridget Hogan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glenbreedy, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Hogan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glenbreedy, Co. Tipperary
