School: Carnamoyle (roll number 7344)
- Location:
- Carnamoyle, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Hugh Mc Kee Fleck
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1113, Page 516
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- The most harmful weed in our farm is the benweed, they are harmful because they spread rapidly. The benweeds are said to grow only in good soil. There is a herb which is called bog bean you get it in a bog. It is used for cleaning the blood. To prepare it for using, you boil the juice out of it, then you drink it. Another herb which is called biller, it is used also for cleaning the blood. To prepare it for using you put salt on it then you eat it.
- Some people use docker seeds for horses with a cough. They have to dry the seeds and then boil them in water, then they strain the seeds and give the water to the horses to drink. The thistle is a very harmful weed, it is harmful because it spreads rapid. The thistle grows only in good land.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen Mc Colgan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drummanneill, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Peter Mc Colgan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drummanneill, Co. Donegal
