School: Gort Leitreach (roll number 15960)
- Location:
- Gortletteragh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seosamh Mac Cionnaith
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0214, Page 389
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- (continued from previous page)Stinking Roger steamed and pounded and stewed in unsalted butter for burns.Mullen plant boiled in milk cure for consumption This is a very tall plant something like a foxglove in shape with a long spike of yellow flowers.
Ali Compaign drawn like tea a cure for coldsHouse leek pounded a cure for worms in horses.The leaves of the Fairy Finger or Foxglove are poisonous, but if a little are drawn like tea and given in very small quantity to young pigs, it presents convulsions(continues on next page)
