School: Páirc na gCrann (roll number 16042)
- Location:
- Woodfield, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cearnaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0111, Page 73
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Páirc na gCrann
- XML Page 73
- XML “Herbs”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- There are many harmful herbs. Such herbs as the boocooloons and the thistle and the dock leaf, the nettle the red rench. These are the chief pests which grow in crops and spoil the crops such as oats and wheat, and other growing crops. The nettle grows in poor land. But some farmers say that the boocooloon grows in good land where the soil is rich and fertileThere are herbs which grow in grass lands and there are great cures in them Such as the Ghlas a choille, which is a cure for rash and other kinds of sores which comes on the shins. It is boiled with unsalted butter and changed in to a kind of paste. This plant when growing is about nine inches in height and the leaves grow small and green and afterwards a berry comes on top of it. It grows in stony land. Some of these herbs are very good for cattle and others are poison to animals and kill them. A herb called the fuarán it is(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seán Ó Gairibhith
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Rinn, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- John Garvey
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Rinn, Co. Mayo
