School: Bealach (roll number 5811)
- Location:
- Ballagh, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Daltúin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0258, Page 120
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- (continued from previous page)The ''earth nuts'' are used as food and pigs root them up and children enjoy them very much when other nuts cannot be found. The ''braken'' is used for dying wool and ''health'' is used for dying purposes. The ''deadly night shade'' is used as a poison also the foxglove.
Herbs were used extensively in former times and cured all kinds of disease. The Danes handed down several cures and old men from the North went around giving cures and nobody ever failed to be cured.
- Informant
- Miss M. Mc Gawley
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Kilroosky, Co. Roscommon
