School: Moyvoughley (roll number 7249)
- Location:
- Moyvoughly, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: C. Ní Fhlannagáin
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- (continued from previous page)cattle if they eat them.
Scutch grows rapitly and destroys the tillage.
Groundil grows in bad land and birds are fed on it.
Raep is very good for feeding sheep
The thorn of a gooseberry bush cures a sty in a person’s eye.
The Robin - run - the - hedges is a Herb with a white flower on it and the hedges look lovely with the flower.
Water cress is very good for the blood
Elderberry wine is made out of the berries of Elders.
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“Mrs Maxwell of Tullamore wanted a servant...”
My Grandmother's brother saw a fairy dressed in red one day and he asked the fairy what he wanted? and he told him not to mind what he wanted, and he said not to ask such a silly question.
My Grandmother's brother asked him for money thinking it was a lovely gentleman.
The fairy leaped across the wall and the man never saw the fairy again.Mrs Maxwell of Tullamore wanted a ser-(continues on next page)
