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School: Cillín

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Killeen, Co. Mayo
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Pádraic Ó Hubáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0140, Page 611

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    saying while doing so "te, te neantóg fuar, fuar, capóg."
    In mountainous places comfraoi usually grows. Pigs and pig badgers are reared on it. People let the pigs out on the mountain and they eat these herbs, they eat nothing else. Comfraoi
    grows on little heights of land.
    Comfraoi is also very useful to people. It is a cure for sores. People put it on the sore and soon it is cured.
    Niathfórt is not a wild plant it has to be sown in the garden.
    Muigh bhfear is a poisonous plant, for birds and animals. It is used for sores.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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