School: Lusmagh
- Location:
- Gortarevan, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: T. Ó Floinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0814, Page 215
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- Scutch grass is the name of a weed that grows after ploughing it grows about five inches in height it is good for animals.
Chicken weed is the name of a weed which grows in potatoes turnips mangles and beet. It grows about two inches in height and spreads rapidly and chokes the crops and when it dies it manures the ground. Hemlock is a weed which grown in gardens it is a tall thick weed, its colour is green if anyone eat it it would poison them.
Dockleaf is a weed which grows in gardens and does a great deal of harm to anything you sow in it.
- Collector
- Kieran Hanniffy
- Gender
- Male
