School: Glenidan (roll number 12862)
- Location:
- Glenidan, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhaoldhia
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0722, Page 053
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- (continued from previous page)sown and ploughed down into the soil to kill red weed.
Crowfoot grows wild in gardens and it has big long white roots.
Dandelion is a weed which grows on ditches. It has a yellow flower on it. Dandelion is good for the liver. Fowl also eat it. Tea can be made out of the leaves and coffee out of the roots. A certain amount if Dandelion flowers are used to make wine.
Sarrell grows in damp land. People eat it but it is very bitter.
Rattlers are weeds on which a little yellow blossom grows on. It has a very strong perfume.
Nettles grow wild everywhere in this district. People boil them and eat them. Nettle beer is made out of them in England.
- Collector
- Frances Fitzsimons
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Thomas Fitzsimons
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Glenidan, Co. Westmeath
