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School: Scairt (C.), Cill Dairbhe (roll number 4127)

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Scart, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Mrs R. Eager
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0375, Page 365

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    burn them in order to get rid of them.
    Those herbs are used as yet for poison and dye.
    People of long ago did use the herbs and plants, for chemists were not available to make medicines for them. Those herbs used to cure the people and give them ease.
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    Dockroots are the most harmful weeds on the farm because if it was allowed to grow for one year on the farm you would have twice as much the second year.
    Long ago people put a weed under a bee hive and the hive over flowed with honey. It flowed out on the weed covered it with honey, that weed is called the buacallan. So the bucacallan is damp the warmest day of the year
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    Peggie Ní hIarlaithe
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13
    Informant
    Mrs Nelly Kelly
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    75
    Address
    Meadstown, Co. Cork