School: Crecora, Tobar Pádraig (roll number 9668)
- Location:
- Crecora, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Ainnín
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- Black quarter weed grows in low lying land. It blooms in spring. It has a little white flower in the centre of its leaves. In this flower lies its poison. Cattle which eat this flower get "Blackquarter" and die. It is however quite harmless for goats. That is why goats are put on the land with cattle. They eat all the harmful herbs.
Another cure is if a beast has taken it to put red pepper up the nostril of the beast and let it then into an open field. The beast goes mad and runs around the field, thus circulating the blood.
Red posey weed growing in walls cures kidney trouble. Boil it and drink water of it. It is drawn like tea.
For-tail weed, injurious to cattle, so called because its leaf resembles forms tail.
