School: Arva (C.)
- Location:
- Arvagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mrs Mc Govern
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- The most harmful weeds that grow on a farm are thistles, "buaiscalan buidhe", dock leaf, burdock, chicken weed, nettles, hem-lock, comfrey, fairy fingers, and clover. They are harmful because they spread rapidly, and some of them also destroy the soil.
Here are the ones that grow in good land, fairy-fingers, thistles, dandelion, and mushrooms. Chicken-weed, comfrey plaintain leaf, "buachalan buidhe", and peppermint grown in bad land. Most of the herbs has medical properties. Nettles boiled in cabbage purifies the blood. Orange lily roots boiled, and put on an(continues on next page)- Collector
- Eilish Calders
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Arvagh, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mrs Calders
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 47
- Occupation
- Blacksmith's wife
- Address
- Arvagh, Co. Cavan