School: Ballycastle Boys' (roll number 14290)

Location:
Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Mícheál de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0140, Page 089

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0140, Page 089

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  1. There are some herbs very distructive to the farmer. The chicken weed grows mostly in the potatoes and destroys some of them. People oftentimes boil this weed for pigs. There is another herb called ferns. This herb spreads all over the land and destroys the grass. There are other herbs to cure diseases. In olden times when doctors were not as plenty as the are now the people had to cure their diseases by herbs. In those days the
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Timlin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballinglen, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mrs Timlin
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    56
    Address
    Ballinglen, Co. Mayo