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School: Kilmaganny, Thomastown

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Cill Mogeanna, Co. Chill Chainnigh
Teacher:
C. Ó Hurdail
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    Some of the weeds are very good for the mixing of medicines. Dandelion when cut up & boiled in milk is good for consumption.
    If a cow had warts on her udder, the milk of the wart-flower cuts them off.
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    Dock-leaf is a very harmful weed because it spreads rapidly. The thistle & nettle grows in good land only. Spunk grows in poor land & has a long root. I once heard that it grows down 13 feet. Nettles are eaten by people, while thistles & chicken-weed are eatern by pigs. Dandelion is given to turkeys.
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    The most harmful herbs are Nettles, thistles, dockroots, dandelion & robin-run-the-hedge & the useful herbs are chicken-weed & water-cress.
    Dandelion & robin-run-the-hedge are used as cures. The former cures coughs; the later, dogs that take fits. Nettle & Water-cress are used as food by people in the spring & chicken-weed is used as food for geese & turkeys.
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