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School: Sruth Nua

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Ardnacally, Co. Mayo
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Tomás de Brún
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0104, Page 367

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    Herbs
    If you boil nettles and drink the water in the month of March you would not get a cold for the whole year
    The berries of a trum bush are a lovely colour and they make wine of them. The skin that is inside is good for a burn.
    Sloes make jin
    Macana Company is good for keeping down swelling
    If you had a goat he would pickup all the poisonous herbs on the land.
    If you would break up snails and make a plaster of them they would heal boils Bugals would also do
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Hogan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Newbrook, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    John Hogan
    Relation
    Unknown
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    48
    Address
    Newbrook, Co. Mayo