School: Colehill (B.), Mullingar (roll number 14672)
- Location:
- Cnoc na Góla, Co. an Longfoirt
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Coigligh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0750, Page 112
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- (continued from previous page)a nettle. The crowfoot, chicken weed, and dockan are harmful because they spread rapidily and impovish the land.
Some herbs such as the water cress are eaten by people as a food.
The cattle will eat thistles, water cress and rushes. The nettles and dandelion are eaten by turkeys as a food.
The roots of the buachalán are poisonous if eaten. Long ago people used to dye their clothes with heath. The heath when boiled and the juice when rubbed into the clothes will dye them black. Some people eat nettles as a cure for a cold.
Once upon a time a man was selling seeds at a fair. All the people gathered round him and he told them to sow(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas Clogher
- Gender
- Male
