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School: Lattoon

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Lattoon, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
P. Ó Hiorraí
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1001, Page 379

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1001, Page 379

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  1. Leipreachán or Mermaid (continued)

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  2. Herbs

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    Gréin an Diabhail is the most harmful plant is pasture fields in this county. It has a purple blue blossom which forms into pods filled with seed and spreads over land quickly. In cultivating the ground where it is plentiful the root grows down, forms a clump and the root is harder cut with a spade than the root of a whin bush. I don't believe any animal eats this plant and it covers alot of the land when in pasturage and it is almost impossible to
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