School: Cor Bealaigh
- Location:
- Corbally, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Marcacháin
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- (continued from previous page)If you use moss in dyeing brown clothes you will dye them an orange colour.
A drop of fox-glove is supposed to be very good for sleeplessness, but if a person takes much it will poison him.
- Cro Dearg or Herb Robert when crushed and boiled is a cure for consumption. Foranjuice taken in small drops is a cure for king's evil and is also applied to the sore. The leaves eaten with salt like lettuce are good for the blood. It is given to pigs and it improves the milk when given to cows. The juice, when applied to warts, destroys them.
- Collector
- Celia Hallinan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockroe, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mr Edward Mc Hale
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castleconor, Co. Mayo
