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School: Ballymahon (B.) (roll number 12690)

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Ballymahon, Co. Longford
Teacher:
Eugene Conway
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0751, Page 324

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    The most harmful weeds growing on my farm are: thistles, dockens, scutchgrass, dandelion, blackheads chickenweed, rushes, yellow rattle, downy oatgrass, whins, foorawns, and boohillawns.
    There are weeds that spread thistles, scutchgrass, foorawns boohillawns, whins, dockens and dandelion.
    The herbs that grow in good land are : thistles and boohillawns.
    Poor neglected land produces daisies, or oxeye, blackheads, yellow rattle, mouse ear, chickenweed a very poisonous plant for young lambs purging flax, silverweed, cowslips, selfheal, speedwells, cranesbill and moss.
    Poor neglected land is also liabel to be infested with furze bushes bracken fern and blackberry bramble as the result of neglect. The weeds that are used for diseases
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Harry Flood
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballymahon, Co. Longford
    Informant
    Edward Nally
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    Ballymahon, Co. Longford