School: Caiseal Seanachain (roll number 15170)
- Location:
- Cashelshanaghan, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Bláthnaid Ní Ghiolla Fhaolain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1086, Page 10
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- Chicken-weed is the most harmful weed, because it spreads. Sullocks are found in poor land. Chicken-weed is supposed to cure sprains. Dog-rowans are poisonous. Crotton weed is used for making dye.
- Collector
- Maggie Kilpatrick
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Ardrumman, Co. Donegal
- At Easter, the children build an Easter house in which they boil eggs and eat them. At Hallowe’en, they get nuts and apples to eat. The men shoot and hunt at Christmas and the children get toys.
