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School: Clonshough

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Clonshagh, Co. Dublin
Teacher:
C. Ní Bhroin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0792, Page 460

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    for kidney trouble. It is also used for feeding rabbits. Rag weed is very harmful any place it grows.
    The docum. If you get a sting of a nettle take a leaf off the docum and put it on the little blisters and it will take the sting away.
    Thistles:- are very harmful when they get in among the corn because they cut the hands of people when they are putting up the stooks.
    Spunk Weed is an other harmful weed it is spreads rapidly and it is very hard to get rid of.
    Cickle weed is very harmful when it gets in among the wool of the sheeps' backs.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    C. Mc Guinness
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Belcamp, Co. Dublin