School: Scairt (C.), Cill Dairbhe (roll number 4127)
- Location:
- Scart, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Mrs R. Eager
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- On my farm the dock plant is the most harmful because it takes a lot of good out of the soil. The thistle and nettle are looked upon as growing on rich ground. The horse-mutton is siad to denote poor ground.
The milk out of the stime in the thistle plant is a cure for warts.
The dandelion was thought to be helpful in the disease of consumption. It was dried and brewed like tea and was drunk. The buacallan is a cure for any kind of sores. The dock plant was used to ease the burn of a nettle. The flower of the clover was used to cure a cut. The cow-slip was a cure for palsy long ago.
The buacallan is a yellow flower. Long ago a man tryed to grow some flowers, he got a box of very brown earth trying to grow them. A buacallan appeared and had as a colour the colour of the earth.
The snow-drop is supposed to owe its small size to the fact that(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Ní Riagáin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Informant
- Mr J. Roche
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
