School: Caiseal (roll number 16085)
- Location:
- Cashel, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Mághnuis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0122, Page 189
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- (continued from previous page)to get a flower called Lungwort and boil it in three pints of water and drink it before the sunrise. She told me that this flower was of a dark colour and used to grow in wet fields. She told me that when people used to have bad stomachs they used to get a plant called Meadowsweet which grows in the meadows. She told me the way they used it was to wash it and chop it up and throw a grain of salt on it and eat it.
She told me that when people used to have bad Lungs they used to get a plant called Marshmallow Root. This is the way they used it. They used to put 4 ozs of the root in five pints of water to boil and then when boiled they used to strain the juice(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Delia Nolan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Egan
- Gender
- Female
