School: Loughmoe (B.), An Teampoll Mór (roll number 7694)
- Location:
- Loughmoe, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Liam Ó Riain
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- The following are the names of weeds that grow in my district:
The lamb's quarter, buck thistle, sow thistle, chicken-weed, fox-tail, scutch -grass, robin-run-the hedge, boochulawn, cachie-eye, water cress, nettles, spunk, dandelion, dock-leaves, ferns, preshock rushes, flagger, growadoel, wart-weed, bull-rush, drownding-leaves.
The lamb's quarter is a green coloured weed with a big long root. It grows only in tillage fields or in rich land.
Buck-thistles grow in grazing land. They grow about five or six feet high. It has a pink blossom.
So-thistles are a tall soft weed and it grows in potato-ground mostly. They are called sow-thistles because sows eat them.
Chicken-weed is found in gardens. It grows flat along the ground, and it has a small pink blossom.
Fox-tail has an evergreen colour. It is a very hard weed to pull because it has a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Denis Morris
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Curraghmore, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Philip Morris
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Curraghmore, Co. Tipperary
