School: Uachtar Árd (roll number 4786)
- Location:
- Oughterard, Co. Galway
- Teacher: An tSr M. S. Iognáid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0065, Page 281
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- (continued from previous page)Chicken weed is a cure for swelling it is heated on a pan and put on the swelling. The stems of it are called knees and there is a cure in every knee of it.
There is also an herb that cures piles it grows in a cluster and a yellow flower grows in the middle like a buttercup.
There is an herb that grows in the mountain in crevices it has only one stem and it is healthy for everything and is a cure consumption.
There is a downing leaf that grows in marshy places, its a cure for a burn.
There is a cure for kidney trouble it grows through the potatoes in Harvest and has a bad smell it is a long stringy thing and it grows low to the ground.
A docking leaf cures sores when you rub it on them.
- Collector
- Nora Darcy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Maghera More, Co. Galway
