School: Cluain Tuirc (C.)
- Location:
- Cloonturk, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Máire Ní Gharaidh
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- (continued from previous page)and the "bohelawn" on good land.Many herbs are used for curing diseases or ailments. Among them are the chicken-weed- a cure for swelling. Dandelion for stomach trouble. Hemlock used for growing pains. Nettles for a nettle rash. Garlic used for a cold. Rhaggoge is a cure for removing worms from children.Chicken weed must be roasted before applying it to a swelling Dandelion must be boiled also Hemlock and Nettles.Nettles and Garlic are used as food for young turkeys. Fairy Finger leaves is a cure for ring-worm.Long ago blossoms and heather were used in dicing.Author My mother Mrs T Newton age 45 yrs Moheraven
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- Collector
- May Notley
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Informant
- Annie Notley
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 38
- Address
- Cloonboniagh South, Co. Leitrim