School: Cloncovid
- Location:
- Cloncovet, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: S. Savage
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- The most harmful herbs growing in our farm are nettles, docks, and thistles. Docks are harmful because they spread very quickly. Rushes grow in bad undrained land.
Some flowers have cures such as the buttercup which cures a pain in your head. Daisies grow in good land and in good hay.
When a nettle stings you, the cure is to rub the juice of a dock to it. The boacalán grows in bad land and spreads very quickly. It grows in pasture fields. There is a weed called "sperry" that grows in oats & it is a very bad weed.
In gardens there grows a weed called "hemlock", it(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Miss May Sheridan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carnagh Upper, Co. an Chabháin
- Informant
- Edward Masterson
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carnagh Upper, Co. an Chabháin
