School: Knockaville (roll number 14185)
- Location:
- Knockaville, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: C. de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0730, Page 403
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- The most harmful weeds grown locally are Scutch Grass, Prasha Buide, or wild mustard, Dock leaf thistle, Nettles, Black-heads, Chicken-weed (in tillage) and Gloran, and
Thistles are harmful because they spread very rapidly. The tall species of thistle grows on good soil. Scutch grass impoverishes the soil and daisies grow on bad land.
Bracken is a bad weed as it spreads rapidly and impverishes the soil.
- Collector
- Richard Ennis
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Hightown or Balloughter, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Mr James Ennis
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Hightown or Balloughter, Co. Westmeath
