School: Tulach Ruacháin
- Location:
- Tulrohaun, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mary Agnes Smyth
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0109, Page 537
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The cowslip for pleurisy by taking the leaf and put it in water for one day and then drink the water.
Camoile plant for lumbago by boiling it in oil for one hour and then messaged in to the skin.
There is an herb in some fields and if a sheep ate it she would rot.
The male fern is the only thing that cures it.
The herb crow foot commonly known as "fearbán" was used for putting to wounds and for stopping blood.
The shape of the leaf of the "fearbán" is like a crow's foot.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Katie Caulfield
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tulrohaun, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Delaney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tulrohaun, Co. Mayo
