School: Uachtar Árd (roll number 4786)
- Location:
- Oughterard, Co. Galway
- Teacher: An tSr M. S. Iognáid
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- The old people had a lot of cures for diseases and sikness.There is an herb that grows in land that poisons cattle, it is called Lark-spur.There is another herb that poisons sheep, it is a small green plant that grows on the mountain.Thistles and docking leaves grow in good land.
Long ago they boiled the Rilóg for to cure man and beast.There is a cure in dandelion for liver.Chicken weed is a cure for swelling, it is heated on a pan and put on the swelling.
The stems of it are called knees and there is a cure in every knee of it.There is also an herb that cures piles, it grows in a cluster and a yellow flower grows in the middle of(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridie Darcy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Oughterard, Co. Galway
