School: Ballykelly
- Location:
- Ballykelly, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Uadain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0873, Page 313
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- Preshough,
Spunk,
Comford,
Thistles,
Preshaugh is harmful because it spread quickly. It grows mostly in corn. This herb kills the crop. It is sprayed with bluestone to prevent it from spreading. It is very hard to clean out of the ground.
Comfort is a herb which grows on poor land. It has a root like a carrot. It is used to cure sprains and my uncle told me that it is also used to cure scour in calves. It is cut and boiled. The root only is used. When it is soft it is put as a poultice to the sprain.
I do not know how it is used to cure calves.
Spunk is a herb which grows in mangolds and turnips. It grows in patches and has a long root. When the crops are being thinned the spunk has to be pulled and it pulles up a lot of the plants and it causes a big damage to the land. Thistles(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peggy Cooney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballykelly, Co. Wexford
