School: Mount Collins, Mainistir na Féile (roll number 10107)

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1. Herbs

   

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   If you set a packet of black pansy seeds and when they'd grow up the bees and butterflies would come and go from flower to flower and the following year when you'd set those seeds the flowers would be all different colours. It is said that the bees and butterflies changed them. Herbs and plants that are eaten:- Fairy praties; Sorrow (Sows leaves), Mushrooms; Spineáns; Cuckoo eggs; Black Huts; Vetches; Haws; Sloes; Nettles; Honey Suckle and red Clover; the soft white part of a rush when you'd pull, also the soft white part of Canabhán when you'd pull it from the roots;

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

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2. Food for Animals

   

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   Thistles for asses and goats and when it is cut up cows eat it.
   Castarbhán is picked and chopped and given to hens and ducks and pigs
   Young tender shoots of bushes eaten by goats and asses
   Furse (gorse) is given when chopped up to horses.
   When the mountain is burned Finncáin

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