School: Garr
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- An Gearradh, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- Teacher: Cáit de Léis
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- The most harmful weeds are – docks, chicken-weed, praiseac, which grows in oats & wheat; thistles; cockles – with a thorny head which fastens itself of one's clothes, black-heads, & "buacalláins" or tall yellow weeds, & "red soldiers" or wild poppies which grow in corn.
They are harmful both, because they spread rapidly & because they impoverish the soil.
Buttercups & clover grow where land is rich, and daisies where land is poor. - The Dandelion and Yarrow boiled together and made into a drink is a cure for the yellow jaundice.
Long ago they used to boil the heath and dye the(continues on next page)- Collector
- Maura Monahan
- Gender
- Female