School: Sráid na Cathrach (B.) (roll number 8850)
- Location:
- Milltown Malbay, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Briain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0622, Page 324
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“The people long ago had no dyes to colour their woollens but what they used to do was to pick the bark off the rock and it would not put on any colour but brown...”
(continued from previous page)When it was boiled it was strained and the woollens were boiled in the juice
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“The buachallán, praiseach bhuidhe, the nettle, the thistle, the dock, the fern, and the feilistrium are herbs that are damaging to land because they cover a lot of ground...”
The buachallán, praiseach bhuidhe, the nettle, the thistle, the dock, the fern, and the feilistrium are herbs that are damaging to land because they cover a lot of ground and if allowed to grow unchecked they will eventually spread over the whole pasture land.For a long time those herbs, or weeds as they are sometimes called, were allowed to grow from year to year by the majority of Irish farmers.Of late years the Government have brought up a bill, whereby it is an offence for a farmer to allow these weeds to grow unchecked.The fern grows in bad land, because the land that grows ferns wont(continues on next page) - Collector
- Paddy Malone
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Milltown Malbay, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Mr Malone
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Milltown Malbay, Co. Clare