School: Kilmaganny, Thomastown
- Location:
- Kilmaganny, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: C. Ó Hurdail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0852, Page 296
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- Some of the weeds are very good for the mixing of medicines. Dandelion when cut up & boiled in milk is good for consumption.
If a cow had warts on her udder, the milk of the wart-flower cuts them off.
- Dock-leaf is a very harmful weed because it spreads rapidly. The thistle & nettle grows in good land only. Spunk grows in poor land & has a long root. I once heard that it grows down 13 feet. Nettles are eaten by people, while thistles & chicken-weed are eatern by pigs. Dandelion is given to turkeys.
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- Collector
- Thomas Hurley
- Gender
- Male
- Dandelion is a medicinal herb for the blood, when cut up & boiled in milk.
Ivy leaves, boiled in milk is used for pains in the back. It is rubbed on.
