School: Kyle (An Chill) (roll number 4442)

Location:
Kyle, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Tomás Ó Cathasaigh

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0397, Page 087

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flower to your eyes the old people say that you would get sore eyes within a few months.

Switch grass, spunk, cuckholes, Dogroots chicken weed, thistles, puirseacwee, buacalláin, and march mallas harm the land. Wood sorrel, saddle grass and sour lands harm the land. Penny leaves and Ivy leaves are cures for corns.
Garlic is a cure for toothaches and strangles in cattle and for a bad stomack
Dandelion is a cure for warts and pimples. Birds milk is a cure for warts. Yearrow and wild sage are cures for Rheumatism. Bull rush, ladies timbles, thistles, dogroots, puirseacwee, chickenweed, corn caol, grow in rich soil.
Pegwood berries, Privage berries are poison

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Collector
Kathleen O' Connor
Gender
male
Address
Knockmonalea West, Co. Cork
Informant
Mr T. Keane
Gender
male
Address
Knockmonalea West, Co. Cork
Language
English