School: Scairt (C.), Cill Dairbhe (roll number 4127)
- Location:
- Scart, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Mrs R. Eager
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- (continued from previous page)burn them in order to get rid of them.
Those herbs are used as yet for poison and dye.
People of long ago did use the herbs and plants, for chemists were not available to make medicines for them. Those herbs used to cure the people and give them ease. - Dockroots are the most harmful weeds on the farm because if it was allowed to grow for one year on the farm you would have twice as much the second year.
Long ago people put a weed under a bee hive and the hive over flowed with honey. It flowed out on the weed covered it with honey, that weed is called the buacallan. So the bucacallan is damp the warmest day of the year(continues on next page)- Collector
- Peggie Ní hIarlaithe
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Informant
- Mrs Nelly Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Meadstown, Co. Cork