School: Fearth Mór (Brooklawn) (roll number 15508)
- Location:
- Fartamore, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Treasa, Bean Mhic Aonghusa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0040, Page 0286
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- There is a weed growing in our land. It is called hem-lock. It would poison every animal except the goat. It is only growing in one field and we have tillage in that field every year. It grows mostly near the walls.
When a goat is in a field where these herbs are growing, he even searches for them and eats them up. If a sheep eats them he would die. Often a sheep was found dead in a field on account of this herb. This is why the farmers like to have goats among their sheep.
Some people say that thistles never grow in bad land, but a lot of them grow on very good land.
- Collector
- Pádraig De Búrca
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- William Kennedy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lehid, Co. Galway
