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School: Mount Collins, Mainistir na Féile (roll number 10107)

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Mountcollins, Co. Limerick
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Pádraig Ó Coileáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0493, Page 333

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    Names of Weeds:- Chicken weed; Crowsfoot, Yellow Root, Dog Leaf (Dock Leaf), Duacallán, Castarbhán; Thistles, Nettles Screen Broom, Fairy Praties (potatoes); Ferns; Noneens; Leaves of Rhuburb; Fairy Mille
    Ones that spread rapidly:- Chicken weed, (Crow Weed & Ivy Weed are the same), Nettles; Briars; Dock Leaves; Thistles
    Ones that impoverish the soil:- Dock Leaves: Thistles; Nettles; Ferns; Duacalláns;
    On Good Land:- Thistles; Clover; Noneens; dandelions; Ferns; Duacalláns, Dock Leaves, Cowslips
    Castarbain; Moosrooms
    On bad Land:- Rushes, Felistrums;
    Chicken Weed; Marsh Mallows; Dock Leaf; St Joseph's Leaf; Cabbage; Potatoes; Nettles; Apples; Dandelion; Dock-Leaves and the Black Snail; See page 25
    Marsh Mallows cure sore insteps, corns. They cut it up and rub it to the corns. They
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English