School: Baile Theas (B.), Malla (roll number 4953)
- Location:
- Ballyhass, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Hanluain
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- (continued from previous page)and tillage fields. It is a very high plant and it would cut your hands if you had a tight hold of it.
The dead man's flower is supposed to be unlucky. People tell young children if they pick the dead man's flower they will die that night. Fairy thimbles are supposed to be unlucky flowers because the people say that the fairies wear the thimbles when they are sewing. If you pick the thimbles when you are out at night you will not be able to take your fingers out of them for eleven months. This plant is also called the Foxglove a Folk's Glove
The milk weed grows on the banks of a river. If you pull them and take all the juice out of them and it is used for poisoning fish but it is forbidden by law. The elestrum is a big yellow flower and it is a very bad sign to see them growing in any land because they always grow in a wet marshy place.
The wild parsnip is a form of the parsnip we set set in gardens. In the year of the famine when people had no food they used to eat the water cress. The dock leaf is a perennial weed and it cannot be banished unless they are dug out by the roots. Ivy is a very useful weed and it is boiled and the juice of it used for cleaning stains out of clothes. The cuckoo pint is a weed that grows in warm places and the leaf of it is like the leaf of the lily and a blue flower grows out of it called the cuckoo pint.
The hemlock is a very common weed around here.(continues on next page)- Informant
- Mr David Duloherry
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballygiblin, Co. Cork
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- Mr John Lombard
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballygiblin, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr John O' Hanlon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyhass, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr Thade Conners
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coolawaleen, Co. Cork