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School: Coillte Bó (roll number 15984)

Location:
Kiltybo, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Michael S. Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0107, Page 429

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    The weeds that grow wild in our vegetable garden are, dockleaves, chickweed, nettles, thistles, buachalláin, and coltsfoot, these are the most harmful perhaps. The dockleaves, thistles, nettles, and buachalláin are harmful because they are deep rooted and they make the soil poor. The chickweed and the coltsfoot are not as bad as the others because they are not as deep rooted in the soil. These weeds spread quickly and they stop others plants near them from growing. The herbs that are in this district are, cowslips, horse-raddish, ivy, comfrey, dockleaves, chickweed, elder-berries, garlic, marsh-mallow, and the goose-berry thorn. The cowslip is used for yellow-jaundice. It is boiled and the juice is drunk. The stems of the ivy is boiled and the juice
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Joe Healy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cloonmore Lower, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mrs Healy
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cloonmore Lower, Co. Mayo