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School: Siolbhrain (Shelbourne) (roll number 5235 or 5484)

Location:
Gortrooskagh, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Síghle, Bean Uí Thuama
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    plant. It bears a flower of the same family as the furze. It is used for making brooms. The stems are boiled and the juice is taken for strengthening the blood, and curing boils.
    Ivy is used for putting on corns, and boiled-ivy is applied to chilblains.
    The Chicken-weed is very destructive to the potato-garden. It soaks the substance of the soil, & its roots spread deep into the earth. Its juice is very bitter, & it is rubbed to sores.
    The leaves of the sally were much used for feeding pigs. It was a custom to send the school-children picking sally in the evenings. They used to gather the young leaves into bags, which were then boiled, mixed with bruised potatoes, and given to pigs and fowl.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eibhlín Ní Shuilleabháin
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    14
    Address
    Lackaroe, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    Bean Uí Shuilleabháin
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    60
    Address
    Lackaroe, Co. Kerry