School: Brittas (roll number 12217)
- Location:
- Brittas, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: B. Ní Mhaoldhomhnaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0794, Page 418
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Brittas
- XML Page 418
- XML “Herbs”
- XML “Riddles”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- There are many useful herbs growing around this district, such as nettles the dandelion and water cress.
The water cress serves as a vegetable in the Spring time when the people have no cabbage or turnip.
The nettles are very good to purify the blood and they make a very nice dinner when they are boiled with bacon.
If you eat three dinners of nettles during the Spring the blood is purified for the whole year round.
The milk of dandelion cures warts.
Another very good herb is rib grass.
If you chew it and then rub it on the bleeding wound it will stop the blood immediately.
You can make cowslip wine from cowslips.
Boil the cowslips strain and drink it and it is very good for the blood.
Another very good herb is docks.
If you get a sting of a nettle, and if you rub a dock on it, it will cure it if the following lines."Dock Dock cure the sting where the nettle burned me, the sting go away.
- What walks with its head down.? A stud in a boot.
Headed like a thimble tailed like a rat you may guess for ever but you would'nt guess that? A pipe. - Collector
- Áine Ní hAnlon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Brittas, Co. Dublin
