School: Carn an Ríogh (roll number 11619)
- Location:
- Carrownree, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Éamonn Mac Énrí
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0184, Page 0673
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- (continued from previous page)It is believed long ago that to drink the sap of the dandelion would prevent a person from taking a disease called the measles.Long ago it was believed by the old people that if a horse kept eating black-heads he would die, that there was poison in them. There is a plant called the "Yew-tree" and it is said if cattle eat it they would be poisoned. The is also another herb which if put to a wound will stop bleeding.Nettles are cut, boiled and given as food to turkeys.
- Collector
- Eibhlín Ní Mhaoláin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrickbanagher, Co. Sligo
