School: Colehill (B.), Mullingar (roll number 14672)
- Location:
- Colehill, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Coigligh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0750, Page 111
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- The most harmful herbs on the farm are the crowfoot, dockan, dandelion, lamb's quarter, chicken weed and the thiste. The dandelion grows only in sheltered places. The chicken weed grows in tilled fields. The thistle grows only on good land.
Once upon a time a man was buying a farm of land and he asked the owner to tie his horse to a thistle but there was no thistes on the land, so he would not buy the farm.
The dandelion when pounded and steeped in water, the juice that when taken will cure the yellow jaundice. A dockan will cure the sting of(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas Clogher
- Gender
- Male
