School: Cill Eirc
- Location:
- Killark, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: S. Mac Druaidhe
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- Weeds and Herbs.
The docken is supposed to cure the sting of a nettle. When you get a sting you are to rub a docken to it.
When nettles are boiled and when you drink the juice of the nettles through a straw it cleans the blood.
In wild ground there grows a leave called St. Patrick's in which there is a cure for the heart.
The dandelion is the cure of a sore throat. Ragweed gives a disease of stomach staggers to a horse and some of them die with it. Pig weed is the name of a weed some people pluck it and boil it for pigs.
There is a cure in mugwood for consumption.
If a person has a swelled foot chicken weed will cure it. They should warm the weed and put it round their foot.
In a field where sheep are kept ragweeds will ot grow. Charlock is a bad weed it spreads very quick and also burns plants.
A thistle is another bad weed when it gets ripe the seeds blows from it and more thistles grow.
