School: Matehy, Inniscarra
- Location:
- Saint Ann's Hill, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Conchobhar Ó Liatháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0347, Page 290
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- The most harmful weeds growing on our farm are:- Thistles, nettles, dockroots, dandelion, and chickenweed. Dockroots spread rapidly and impoverish the soil. Thistles grow where there is good land. The nettle and the dandelion are found in poor land. Chickenweed can be found in wet land. The flowers of Camimile are cut and boiled and are used to put a fair colour on the hair.
The water in which the leaves of the fairy-thimble are boiled can be used for dying clothes. Nettles can be boiled and eaten. Ribble leaves are given to young turkeys. The juice of "Bonnacín na Buinne" is used for poisoning rivers. "Caisuramháin" is given as food to pigs. Penny-worths when boiled are a cure for warts. The juice is rubbed to the warts.
- Collector
- Mary Hennessy
- Gender
- Female
