Scoil: Lough Arrow

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1. Herbs

   

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   There are a lot of herbs growing on my father's farm.
   Bucha is a herb that grows after the oats is cut and it grows in little bunches.
   It is boiled as good medicine and is drank for bad blood and for kidney trouble. There are alot of weeds growing on our farm at home.
   They grow on the ridges after the potatoes are set such as thistles, dockings, chicken weed and Nettles and fuaireans.
   Fuaireans and dockings are boiled and given to pigs and hens.
   Nettles are boiled and given to turkeys.
   The life root herb grows on the ridges and it only grows in land where potatoes are set and in the furrows.
   It destroys the stalks and it grows up the sides of them.
   The farmer pulls that root or that herb as soon as he sees it growing.
   It is great medicine for chest affections used with benifit in gravel when prepared.
   Marshmallow is a herb that grows in abundance in every part of the country and is good and bad land and its powers of heating are so great that it

   

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   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)

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   Mary Harte

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   Carrigeenblike, Co. Sligo

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   Mr Martin Mitchell

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