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School: Tullyvin

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Tullyvin, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
M. Feeney
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1020, Page 454

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    The names of the weeds that grow on our farm are:- nettles, thistles, docks, rag-weed, crow-foot, day-nettles switch-grass, sow-thistles, hemlock, and horehound. Nettles thistles, docks, and rag-weed, these grow in good land they are bad for the soil. Crow-foot, day-nettles, switch-grass, hemlock, horehound, those grow in bad land and are bad for the soil. The cure for nettle stings are docks, When you get a nettle sting rub a dock leaf to it.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Rose E. Mc Cabe
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Drumhirk, Co. Cavan