School: Cnoc Cairn, Imleach Iubhair (roll number 10731)
- Location:
- Knockcarron, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Dúthaigh
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- (continued from previous page)Eyesbright, a wild flower, grows in rivers. It is an excellent cure for sore eyes.
The juice of a dandelion is good for a sore throat.
Roast turnips make a good poultice, and mint is a cure for jaundice.
- Galbally is a small village situated at the western end of the Glen of Aherlow.
When the Normans first began to settle in Ireland, they found that this district afforded excellent hunting-grounds, as deer, wild boar, and all sorts of game abounded in the woods and mountains.
Accordingly they (the Normans) established a settlement here, until at last there were very few of the original Irish left in the place. If a person visited this village he would be surprised at the extraordinary number of strange non-Irish names to be found, even on sign-boards over shops: Fraser, Blackburn, Richardson, Phelan, Wallace, Hedigan, Valence, Osborne, Scanlan, etc.
This is a relic of the early settlers in this "town of the strangers."
