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

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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

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)

   Languages

   Irish

   English

   Collector

   Máire Ní Riagáin

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   13

   Informant

   Mr J. Roche

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   72