School: Rath Sionnaigh
- Location:
- Rashenny, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seosamh Mac Suibhne
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- (continued from previous page)it is young. Dockings grow in hard ground, and if you get a sting of a nettle, a docking will cure it. if a cow is hurted, get Cran and boil it, and give it to her, and it will cure her. If you boil nettles, and give them to a cow, and if there is anything wrong with her inside, it will cure her. If you want to banish thistles cart sand on the field, and let it lea for a few years.
The most harmful weeds on our farm, are wheat ash, sheggan, presiur, vetches red headed chrush, briars, buttery lump, cuckoo's urls, and quel -rods. There was a man one time called Johnie Paddy Hughday, and he lived in Bun-na Cruic, and he had a field in which fairies lived. The man knew this, and one year he ran short of potatoe ground, so he said he would set potatoes in this field. During this time, one of his cattle got a founder, and he could find no cure for her. When(continues on next page)
