School: Kilmaganny, Thomastown
- Location:
- Kilmaganny, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: C. Ó Hurdail
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- Thistle & Couch-grass (Scutch-grass). The latter destroys some crops on farmers
The hound's tongue, if heated & put to a burn, heals it.
St Paltt's Leaf (See J. Forde).
- Garlic gives a taste to milk, & spocads very rapidly.
Fate weed is bad if anything eats it, but it grows in wet parts of the land only. - The Dock is always found on rich land. Its root is made into a great animal medicine for the blood.
The nettle is very often used as food for human beings & is considered a very healthy food when plucked in a young stage. - Collector
- Maura Power
- Gender
- Female
- Fairy flack & Black-buttons grow on rich land.
- The root of the dock is boiled & the juice drunk to cure the Kidneys. Thistles were used as food by people. Some use nettles instead of cabbage while others give them to turkeys. The "Devil's Bit" was so good for curing people that the devil came & bit a part of it off. Hence the name.
