School: Mullinahone (C.) (roll number 15363)
- Location:
- Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire Ní Shéaghdha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0560, Page 379
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- Charlock is common in corn
Scutch grass is common in cultivated land
Thistle - Two kinds, creeping thistle and spear thistle - found in good pasture.
Black-button, Buttercup are found in poorer soils.
- Rich thistles grow only in good land.A blind man making a match for his daughter went to 'walk' the farm of her prospective husband. He told his son to tie his horse to the best thistle he saw. The son on looking around said that there wasn't a thistle anywhere. His father than said that the land was useless and they'd better go home and break the match.
- Collector
- Mary O' Shea
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- William O' Shea
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Ballyoskill, Co. Kilkenny
- The black berries from the ivy are used to dye material black.
Berries from the elder tree are used for making red ink.
