School: Baile na Daibhche, Droichead Banndan (roll number 9537)
- Location:
- Ballinadee, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Riagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0312, Page 302
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- (continued from previous page)a pinch of salt and a few eggs. Some people put currants in the cake. It was usually baked about a week or eight days before Christmas. When removed from the fire it was carefully papered up and then put in the ashes by the fire. On Christmas night it was taken out of the ashes and cut for the supper.
- The most harmful herbs growing on my fathers farm are the dock roots and thistles and prusac (-). The thistles are harmful because they spread rapidly and the improverish the land.
The dock roots make the land very poort. Thistles are supposed to grow where only land is good and prusac (-) is supposed to grow where land is bad. Mac an da ror is a plant which grows near the river it is a cure for boils. the mac an ba ror is boiled first and while it is boiling the person with the boils should go fields(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mary Finn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathdrought, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Daniel Finn
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Kilgobbin, Co. Cork
