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School: Carrigaline (3) (roll number 12097)

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Carrigaline, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Martha Levis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0392, Page 224

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  1. Herbs (continued)

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    naon, elder bark and wild parsnip can be used for poison. Herbs were were used for nearly every disease in former times. Dr. Daunt of Fahalea cured numbers of people in former times with certain herbs. He set small plots of dock roots, garlic, odourú, wild rhubarb and elder trees as well as other herbs.
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  2. Herbs and Weeds

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    The herbs growing on our farm are clover, dock roots, wild parsnip, daisies, "ódrue", dandelion, chick weed, scooch grass, nettles, meadow sweet, wild strawberries, corncale, ferns, nightshade, ragged robin, wild mint, sorrel, vetch, horsebuttons, penny leaves, rushes and thistles. Rushes, nettles and dock roots grow in good land. Thistles grow in
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    William Daunt
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Fahalea, Co. Cork