School: Leitir Bric (roll number 14924)

Location:
Letterbrick, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Seán Ó Grannacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0151, Page 605

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0151, Page 605

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  1. The most important herbs which grow on land around here are: Mountain Sedge, Chickenweed, buachaill an tighe and Capógs.
    Mountain Sedge: It is a very useful herb which grows only on good soil. There is a cure in it for a cough. The way to make the cure is to get mountain sedge and boil it and drink the juice when it is cold. The mountain sedge does not destroy the land or make it poor.
    Chickenweed: It is another herb which people find growing on their lands. It is not as important as the mountain sedge.
    Long ago people used chickenweed as a cure for cattle having murrain. It grows only on poor soil and makes the land poor.
    Buachaill an tighe: This means the boy of the house. There is a cure in it for sore eyes. The way the cure is made
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    Mary O' Boyle
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Doonaroya, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Anthony O' Boyle
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    c. 60
    Address
    Doonaroya, Co. Mayo