School: Sráid na Cathrach (B.) (roll number 8850)
- Location:
- Milltown Malbay, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Briain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0622, Page 325
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“The buachallán, praiseach bhuidhe, the nettle, the thistle, the dock, the fern, and the feilistrium are herbs that are damaging to land because they cover a lot of ground...”
(continued from previous page)yeild the potato cropsThe feilistrium grows in rank and wet.There is a cure in the dock leaf for the nettle burnThere is a cure in the nettle burn for rhumatism.Some patients prefer this burn to the doctors red hot irons and they claim it is just as effective.The flower of the buachallán is boiled and brewed with brown sugar, and brandy, and stored in a closely corked bottle. This syrup is good for a cough
- Mo Chomharsanacht
Cathair is a place situated a few hundred yards from the school. Long ago a chieftain lived there and after a while his servants built a town called Sráid na Cathrach but that was not its correct name. Its right name is "Cathair".(continues on next page) - Collector
- Kevin Mc Mahon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockloskeraun, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Dan Mc Mahon
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockloskeraun, Co. Clare
