School: Bailieboro (Model)

Location:
Bailieborough, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
A. Ó Dubhda
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1011, Page 091

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  3. XML “My Home District”
  4. XML “Autobiography of a Horse”
  5. XML “Herbs”

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    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
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  2. There are many harmful weeds to be seen growing about the district.
    Most of these weeds are harmful because they spread rapidly and because they impoverish the soil.
    Rushes or dockens growing in a field is a sign that the soil is poor.
    If mint is boiled and drink the water in which it is boiled it will cure a cold.
    There is a weed called blood weed and it
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