School: Kilrush (roll number 14039)
- Location:
- Ballynaberney, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: C. E. Kidd
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0895, Page 245
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- (continued from previous page)245Sow thistles are good for sows chopped in their food, and a plant called pig weed is good for young pigs in their food also.
Elderberries are supposed to dye clothes
Another weed grows and its name is Yarrow and there is a rhyme about it and here it is,
"Good-morrow good Yarrow
I hope again this time tomorrow
You will tell me who my true love will be
The colour of his hair
The clothes he does wear
And when he will be married to me"
And will my future life be happier or worse"Desmond Swaine.
Ballycarney.
Information from my father
Alexander Swaine
Verse from Tom Kavanagh. Age: 30
Labourer.
Address
Balinaberney, Strahart, Ferns
- The most harmful weeds that grow on our farm are Yellow Bottoms, Thistles and Ragweed. The most harmful of them all is the thistle because when you sow corn in a field where(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Robert Masterson
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tomanoole, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Henry Masterson
- Gender
- Male
