School: Termonfeckin (roll number 16209)
- Location:
- Termonfeckin, Co. Louth
- Teacher: T. Ó Corcoráin
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- (continued from previous page)the leaves of dandeloins and the lesser celadines. Then they would bring them home and cook them seperatly. Then they would eat them with salt and pepper. This was to purify their blood in the cold Spring weather.
When a person would get a sprained leg or wrist or swoolen joints, the people would gather the Comefray root. Then they would put it on the leg and it would be cured.
The Comefray root has a large green leaf and a little purple flower grows on it. When a person gets a sting of an nettle the put the capoe leaf on it and say , capoe cooa go about take the sting of an nettle "out".
There is another herb(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary Sheridan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baltray, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Mr Peter Sheridan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baltray, Co. Louth