School: Sruth Nua
- Location:
- Ardnacally, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Tomás de Brún
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A stick of an elder bush should not be used for beating anything because it was used for scourging Our Lord.
The elder bush is never still in the finest of weather It is always shaking.
The dock-leaf grows in good land and very seldom in bad land.
It makes the land poor and it scatters its roots very far around.
Thistles grow in good and bad land.
The roots go out under the ground and grow in a different place.
The thistles get(continues on next page)- Collector
- Annie Fahy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Newbrook, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Micheal Fahy
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Newbrook, Co. Mayo