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School: Turloch (roll number 10286)

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Turlough, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Éamonn Ó Maolmhuaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0120, Page 211

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    tungsworth, and marshmallow.
    Garlic is good for colds, and cures for cattle. Pot-margam is good for flavouring. Tungsworth is good for coughs, and lung complaints. Holy thistle is good for coughs, and boils, and swellings also.
    There are many different kinds of weeds. There are the nettles, buacaláns, chicken weed, bráisteach [?], robin-run-the-hedge, comfrey, and dockens.
    The nettles are good for young turkeys, and young ducks.
    Chickenweed is good for pigs in summer time. Cumfrey is good for swelling. Dockans are good for stings of nettles.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Teresa Devaney
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Turlough, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mrs Gibbons
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    70
    Address
    Drumdaff, Co. Mayo