School: Knockbride (2)
- Location:
- Knockbride, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T.J. Barron
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1015, Page 446
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- The most harmful weeds growing on our land are whins, rag-weeds, broom, nettles, dalkins, thistles, bog-beans, rushes and dance-loins.
They are harmful because they spread rapidly and they impoverish the soil.
The rag-weed are found only on good land and the rushes only grow on poor land.
Chicken-weed cures a sprained ankle, when it is boiled you rub it on.
Long ago, people used whins for food for horses: they would pound the little green shoots up raw and give
- Collector
- Maggie Gibson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Barnagrow, Co. Cavan
