School: Taobh Breac (roll number 15227)
- Location:
- Tievebrack, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Donnchadh E. Mac Congáile
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- (continued from previous page)who was buried. Pull a tooth out of the scull with your own teeth and the will be cured.
- Herbs are very common in my district. There are the names of the herbs I know of, Dockens, Hemlock, Chickenweed, Bluebells, Nettles, Whins, Brooms, Heather, Ben-weeds, Arnuts, Ground Ivy, Gilgowans, Stagens, Bogbean, Rosenoble, Day-nettles Suileogs Colts-foot, Cockabenda and Ripplegrass.Dockens, Hemlock, Nettles, Stagens, Benweed and Colts-foot grow on good fertile land. Therefore they destroy the farmer’s crops and vegetables.The herbs that grow where the land is poor, are Bushes and Bogbean.Harmfull weeds are, Hemlock, Daynettles, Dockens. The herb that is most harmfull is Hemlock. There were two brothers poisoned with hemlock. These people(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Carlin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Belalt, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Joseph Carlin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Belalt, Co. Donegal