School: Cúl Mín, Inis
- Location:
- Coolmeen, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Dd. Ó Murchadha
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0603, Page 385
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Cúl Mín, Inis
- XML Page 385
- XML “Luibheanna”
- XML “Luibheanna”
- XML “Luibheanna”
- XML “Luibheanna”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Transcription guide »
You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - A straw a coal and a bean went for a walk. They came to a stream and the straw laid across it The coal began to walk over it and he burned the straw and fell in The bean burst his sides laughing and a tailor sowed him with black thread. Since that day the bean has a black mark.
- Long ago the old people had a lot of curs for diseases. Chicken-weed cure a burn, from a nettle. A potatoe cures a sore eye. There are many weed that are poisonous to birds or animals. Crows-foot kills horses, buaclán buidhe kills cows. Ivy is good to colour wool for stockings
- Nettles are used for feeding turkeys. Bog onions cure a sprained leg or hand. Sea-weed cures a horses swoolen leg. People often eat water-cress which is usually(continues on next page)
