School: Mount Talbot (roll number 14056)

Location:
Mount Talbot, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
M. Ó Héimhthigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0267, Page 241

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  1. 8.5.'38 Herbs
    The most harmful weeds on our farm are, the thistle, the annell leaf, the couch-grass, the bishop weed, gladom, grounsel, dandelion, charlock or praise, briopcan, buacallon buide, robin-rue-the-hedge, nettle, docked leaf and garlic. They are not harmful because they spread rapidly but because they make the soil poor.
    The nettle, the dock and the thistle grow only in good land. All the rest grow in poor land. The nettle is good for rheumatism. It is boiled first and then the juice of them is drunk. Garlic is good for the gapes which young chickens get very often. It is cut up and mixed through the food and given to them. The Creagh Patrick leaf is good for healing wounds.
    Up to the present day nettles and dandelions are used as part of the food for chickens, turkeys and ducks.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    Brighidh Ní Fhlannagáin
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mrs Flanagan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    50
    Address
    Mount Talbot, Co. Roscommon