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School: Carra

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Carha, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
P. Ó Tonra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0128, Page 508

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    The most harmful weeds that I know of are thistles, chicken-weed, nettles, boocláns, fórkán and rannach. All of these do a great deal of harm to the farmer's crops, and if they are not pulled in time they destroy the crop completely. Chicken-weed is the most one that destroys the potato crop. Thistles usually grow in oats, and they are also very harmful. Nettles grow in nearly every field, and they are given as food to young ducks, young turkeys and young goslings. The boocláns are of no use at all, and they are cut down by the farmers before they wither so that their seeds would not scatter about, or if they did, the fields and meadows would be covered with them the next
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Marion Sarsfield
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Carrownaglogh, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mary Carrabine
    Gender
    Female