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School: Walshestown (roll number 3245)

Location:
Walshestown North, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
Bean Uí Dhuibhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0736, Page 390

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    Chicken-weed which grows in the tillage and also lambs-quarter which sometimes destroy the crops. Black-head grows in bad land. Butter-cups and cow-slips grow in good land.
    Nettles are given as food to turkeys. Dock-leaves are given to pigs. Water-cress is (given) used for salads.
    Prim-rose roots mixed up with Lard and boiled is used as ointment for burns.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Philomena Healy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Slanestown, Co. Westmeath