School: Cor Bealaigh

Location:
Corbally, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Pádhraic Ó Marcacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0163, Page 056

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0163, Page 056

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    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bartly Queenan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Muingwore, Co. Sligo
  2. The leaves of Caisearbán eaten with salt like lettuce are good for the blood. If given to cows it will improve the milk. The milky juice when applied to warts destroy them. The leaves when dried can be use as tea. The Capóg or dock-leaf cures nettle-stings by rubbing it on the sting. It grows near the nettles. Fearbán the creeping buttercup relieves
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