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School: Carrowbeg (roll number 10754)

Location:
Carrowbeg, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Rachel Nic an Ridire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1118, Page 501

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    roasted on a coal and put on a pain will ease it. The water in which bog bine is boiled is very good for the stomach. If water in which ground-ivy is stewed is drunk it will cure hives. If daulkin roots are boiled and the water drunk it is good for the heart. Smart-weed boiled and rubbed on horses is good for clag stings.
    Some plants and herbs are used for both animals and people. Chicken-weed, cold foot, milk thistles, dandelions, red shanks, dockans and yarr are good food for cows. Mugwars stewed are good to give to cows. Briar roots stewed are also good for cows.
    Rose-petals dried and powdered make a good tooth powder. The petals of the rose, and even its green leaves are very good for weak or inflamed eyes.
    Moss off stones is used for dyeing things a greenish grey. Ground ivy has been used for dyeing things black. Dogberries are used as poison.
    If Bogbine is boiled and the water is drunk, it is good for rheumatism sufferers. There are people in this district use it.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Emma Jean Hutchinson
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Meenletterbale, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Mr G. Norris
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    64
    Address
    Moville, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Mr Hutchinson
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    66
    Address
    Meenletterbale, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Mr J. Elkin
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    72
    Address
    Moville, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Mrs Hutchinson
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    63
    Address
    Carrowblagh or Leckemy, Co. Donegal