School: Colehill (B.), Mullingar (roll number 14672)
- Location:
- Colehill, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Coigligh
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- (continued from previous page)from him, then the straw was a beam in his eyes. Because he had a four leaf Shamrock in the clover.
- The following are a list of harmful weeds growing at my home.
The wild nettle clapog, práiseac, slántús, poorains, dockleaf, crowfoot, seven sisters, hemlock, thistle and chicken weed. The harmless ones are sweet meadow, clover and apple- ment.
The following are harmful because they spread rapidly the chicken weed, thistle poórains, práiseac, crowfoot and the dock-leaf, the wild nettle is harmful because it improvishes the land, and the seven sisters are harmful because they are poison.
My father told me the thistle, dockleaf,(continues on next page) - Collector
- Thomas Murphy
- Gender
- Male
