School: Killeenkere
- Location:
- Killinkere, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: A. Ó Cléirigh
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- (continued from previous page)wild weather. Swallows flying low foretell the coming of rain.
When our Saviour was hanging on the cross a robin came and was picking thorns out of his h His head he stained his breast and it is there-fore still red. - The following weeds grow on our farm. The bishop, the yarrow, the gooses-tongue, the docken, prusha, bocharlan, h black-head, red-shank, thistle, nettles, B brioscan,
The bocharlan, thistle and bishop grow only in good land. The bishop and prusha are harmful weeds because they spread and are hard to get rid of.
Dockings and thistles are harmful for the same reasons but the thistles also impoverish the soil.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary P. Glennon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisnahederna, Co. Cavan