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School: Cill an Daingin, Nenagh (roll number 6658)

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Killadangan, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó hOgáin
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    nettle and rubs a dock leaf on it, it will go away. In the stalk of the milk plant there is a substance like milk and if rubbed to a wart the wart will wear away. Horehound when boiled in water and the liquid mixed with honey will cure a cold.
    Some of those weeds are used as food - nettles and dandelion, both of which when boiled, snagged and mixed with meal are given to turkeys.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Sally Darcy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Rockview, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Mrs Darcy
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    50
    Address
    Rockview, Co. Tipperary