School: Cluain Dá Iomaire (roll number 14801)
- Location:
- Cloondahamper (Brown), Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Raghallaigh
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7. Red knew grows in stony land.
8. Rag weed grows in very wet and it spreads out very quickly and this is why it is called rag weed.
9. Water cress grows in the brink of rivers.
10. Crows foot grows in hard ground.
11. Black heads grow in meadows.
Cures
1. To get a nettle and boil it and drink the juice it will cure measles.
2. A dock leaf cures a sting of a nettle.
- 1. To get a nettle and boil it and drink the juice it will cure measles.
2. A dock leaf cures a sting of a nettle. - Collector
- Katie Cunningham
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tigreenaun, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Willie Cunningham
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Tigreenaun, Co. Galway
