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School: Díseart, Droichead Átha (roll number 1434)

Location:
Dysart, Co. Louth
Teacher:
M. Ní Ailpín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0672, Page 260

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    Butter-cups grow on bad land.
    Camamile flowers cure sore eyes, and fox tongue and lard cures burns and scalds.
    People eat water cress between bread.
    Any weed will grow in land if the farmer is careless about it.
    In olden times the people used young nettles in the Springtime as a tonic.
    Nettles & capógs are given to pigs and they are boiled with potatoes.
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