1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. An Currach Mór

School: An Currach Mór (roll number 7707)

Location:
Curragh More, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Séamus Ó Hubáin
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0079, Page 305

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0079, Page 305

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: An Currach Mór
  2. XML Page 305
  3. XML “My Own District”
  4. XML “Herbs”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  2. Herbs

    Share Share Post
    14th May 1938.
    There are many herbs that do much harm on the land and crops. There is a week called "Scutch grass" which is very harmful to the potato crop. It is a thin long grass and the root grows through the potatoes. This weed grows in poor wet soil. Many weeds besides "scutch grass" do great harm to the potato crop. The herbs that
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Finneran
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cuilsallagh, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Michael Fahy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cuilsallagh, Co. Galway