School: Gortnessy (roll number 7235)
- Location:
- Gortinessy, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: M. Nic Sheáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1030, Page 346
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- Dockens and Benweeds are the most harmful weeds which grow on our farm at home. There weeds are harmful because they spread rapidly over the land [sic] Where the land is very wet these weeds will not grow. Many of these herbs have medicinal properties. Nettles, Ripple-grass, Coltsfoot, and Dockens and many other herbs are used for diseases. Nettles are used for curing measles. Dockens are a cure for the sting of a nettle. Ripple-grass is a cure for a cut. The nettles are boiled and made into tea. The person that has the cut chews the grass and puts it on the cut.
- Collector
- Ernest Crawford
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cullion, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mr B. Crawford
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 59
- Address
- Cullion, Co. Donegal
- There are other weeds called the sheepbrisking, the redshanks, the spirit and the sorrel, and the groundsel. The groundsel is a cure for the distemper. The sorrel is used for eating.
