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School: Gleann Doire (C.) (roll number 10404)

Location:
Glenderry, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Cáit Bean Uí Gléathabhúir
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    produced beautiful red nuts. These nuts fell at the surface of the water, and the salmon in the river came up and ate them, which caused the red spots in the salmon.
    There are many weeds which grow in the land such as the swich-grass the Preshaugh weed, the dock-leaf, the chicken weed, the hemlock, the nettle and the dandelion, and the most of those weeds grow in poor land.
    Farmers say when all the crops are cut and drawn into the haggards that the swich-grass grows.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bridie Carroll
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Ned Carroll
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Kerry Head, Co. Kerry