School: Dring, Granard (roll number 14292)
- Location:
- Droing, Co. an Longfoirt
- Teacher: James Drum
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- The ragwort is the most harmful weed on our farm. It is said to be poisonous.
The field dandelions and thistles are used when boiled for feeding pigs, and nettles, prepared in the same way, are used for feeding turkeys.
Green bog moss is used for dying hand-knitted goods.
Boiled cumfrey is used as a poultice for sore feet in animal, and swellings are sometimes bathed in water in which cumfrey roots are boiled.
Ivy is given to sheep to keep away a disease called "fluke".
The "smut" infects land, and grows only where land is good.
Some people eat water-cress for good health.
Boiled nettles are said to purify the blood.- Collector
- Annie Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 10
- Address
- Baile an Ultaigh Íochtarach, Co. an Longfoirt
- Informant
- Thomas Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Baile an Ultaigh Íochtarach, Co. an Longfoirt