School: Aghakee

Location:
Aghakee, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
Mrs Mc Govern
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0994, Page 048

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  1. Weeds are harmful to crops. The most harmful are rag weed, chicken weed, bishop weed, and thistles. Bishop weed and chicken weed spread quickly and choke the crops. Rag weed and thistles, grow in good land, and nettles, and doch leaves grow in bad land. Tea made from nettles is used as a cure for measles, plaintain leaves are used for healing sores, chicken weed is used for redudicing swelling and dandelion tea is taken for liver complaints
    Dandelion is given as food to pigs and nettles are given to turkeys.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Shaun Briody
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Rockfield, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Mr John Mc Cabe
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    86
    Address
    Latnadronagh, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Mr Philip Lynch
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    80
    Address
    Rockfield, Co. Cavan