School: Dumha-chaisil
- Location:
- Ballindoo or Doocastle, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Dubhda
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0117, Page 357
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The most harmful weeds growing on farms are thistles, bohalans, dockens and blackheads. The dockens are considered harmful because they spread rapidly through he land which they impoverish in a short time. Thistles are to be found in good land.
Sorrel. This herb is to be found on the potato ridges, it has a long dark green leaf and in it is the cure of a stone-bruise.(continues on next page)
