School: Walshestown (roll number 3245)
- Location:
- Walshestown North, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhuibhir
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- (continued from previous page)and turkeys.
Peter Hanley. - Chicken-weed which grows in the tillage and also lambs-quarter which sometimes destroy the crops. Black-head grows in bad land. Butter-cups and cow-slips grow in good land.
Nettles are given as food to turkeys. Dock-leaves are given to pigs. Water-cress is (given) used for salads.
Prim-rose roots mixed up with Lard and boiled is used as ointment for burns.- Collector
- Philomena Healy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Slanestown, Co. Westmeath