School: Cnoc an Chuilinn, An Ráth Mhór (roll number 9871)
- Location:
- Caherbarnagh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Nóra, Bean Uí Dhuinnín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0324, Page 265
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- (continued from previous page)they used chop up the slánlus into small bits, and then they used put a bit of butter or cream on it and apply it to the cut. They used the cais-earbáin for feeding hens. If they burned their hand or their leg with nettles they used squeeze the juice of the dock leaves and rub it to it.
The donkeys eat the thistles. The cows eat nettles. The goats eat ivy. The bainicín grows on the sides of ditches, and in the middle of fields and the old people used use it to poison the trout in the river.
They used make dye out of the heath. First they used boil the heath. Then they used mix it with(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Jack Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knocknaloman, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Alexander O Sullivan
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 73
- Address
- Knocknaloman, Co. Cork
