School: Duncormick
- Location:
- Dún Chormaic, Co. Loch Garman
- Teacher: P. S. Ó hEachthigheirn
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- Weeds and Herbs.The dock, the thistle, spunk, the yellow-weed are the most harmful, weeds on the farm. The yellow-weed or the rag-weed spreads very rapidly. The butter-cup is a sign of bad, sour, land. The thistle and rag-weed are a sign of good land.
Ivy leaf boiled and used as a poultice are a cure for sprains
Comfrey is another cure for sprains.
Dog berries and red-berries and hemlock are deadly poison Nettles are sometimes used by people instead of cabbage.
List of Weeds and Herbs.
1. Crow's toes or wild hyacinths
2. Buachalán or wild parsnips.
3. Pig - weed
4. Pig - nut.
5. Chickenweed.
6. Buttercup.
7. Foxglove
8. House - leek.
9. Dock - leaf.
10. Rawk. (In Irish Rábhach)
11. Prashack.
12. Nettles.
13. Dandylions
14. Milky - dandylions
15. Milky - thistle
16. Thistle.
17. Lady's - ladder.
18. Grounsel.
19. Searls.
20. Hedge - weed.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Dick Roche
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baile Sheáin, Co. Loch Garman