School: Ballincor
- Location:
- Ballincor Demesne, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Mrs Julia Liffey
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0819, Page 216
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- (continued from previous page)when strained, make a great ointment for sprains or stiffness of joints.
Spunk is a weed, and it is a great food for pigs, as it is said to contain milk and iron.
Broom which grows in hedges a [...] brown dye and a poison.
Heather dyes a lilac colour.
The bark of oak dyes black and also cleans dark clothes.
Elder berries make a good wine, also ink and also dye a maroon colour.
Dry leaves boiled for two hours with a little salt added makes a great clothes cleaner for dark colours.
Thistles, docks and buachalans are the most harmful weeds on farms as they spread and poison the land and the Law compels the farmers to cut them down every year.
Roasted turnips mixed with buttermilk is found to be an(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sheila Liffey
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Deegan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Shinrone, Co. Offaly
