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School: Clochar na Trócaire, Sligeach

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0160, Page 329

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    There are a great variety of herbs in this locality. They were used very much for cures by the people of the locality. The most plentiful herbs and weeds in this locality are docks or dockings, as they are locally called, rushes, briars, Fearaban, whins, chickweed, glasherlane and "buacallans" or ragweeds.
    Buacallans grow in dry firm land and docks grow in wet land. Button weeds grow in the meadow. Briars grow in all kinds of soil, and we get blackberries from them in Autumn. Ramps
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peggy Harkin
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    John Gallagher
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cairns View, Co. Sligo