School: Cluain an Droma, Mullach (roll number 5267)
- Location:
- Cloonadrum, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Brian Ó Huiginn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0624, Page 278
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- (continued from previous page)Chicken-Weed:Is given to hens and pigs
Herbs eaten Raw:Sweet leaf or Sorrel, water-cress, Sceacóirís: Hips or Wild Rose.Fraocógs: Fruits of the heath.
Haws: Fruits of white thorn. Sloes: Fruit of Blackthorn
Wild Beans: Wild Strawberries: Mushrooms.Blackberries. Cac Bó or Toadstool is poisonous.
Why a person should not have a waking cane of white-thorn.When Our Lord was being scourged at the Pillar it was white-thorn handles were used in the scourges. So nobody likes to have a white-thorn walking stick.The Virginia Creeper:When God had colours given to all the flowers he sent his angels to look at them and made the sun shine in all its glory. The creeper was on top of a rock and the sun scorched the top of it. It is topped with red ever since.
