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School: Leixlip (C.) (roll number 2345)

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Leixlip, Co. Kildare
Teacher:
Mrs. Harty
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0773, Page 255

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    supposed to cure consumption. Mullan-plant is a very tall plant with big soft green leaves and a yellow blossom. It is a cure for a sprain.
    Marsh-mallow is a very tall plant with a pink blossom. If you boil it the milk is to cure kidneys. It grows in ruins.
    Blast-saw is used for to put in ointement for cattle with the diseases of Puffs.
    Clover is supposed to be good for farm animals. It grows on every kind of land.
    Hemlock and deadly-night-shade are poison. They generally grow in ditches among ivy.
    Veronica Eiffe.
    9th November, 1938.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    The Spoonk, Chicken weed, lus na Manta, Mara dá abha and Rattle grow only on poor land.
    Lus na Manta the English name for it is Lichen Moss. It is found on stones on a ditch. Spoonk, is a round cup of a weed. It grows on tillaged land.
    Maureen McElligott
    Barn Hall, Leixlip.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maureen Mc Elligott
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Barnhall, Co. Kildare