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School: Cill Chais, Cluain Meala (roll number 596)

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Kilcash, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Dubhghail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0568, Page 320

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  1. Herbs and Weeds

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    The most common weeds are Buachalán Buidhe, piseach or charlock, nettles, dock root, scutchgrass, thistles chicken weed, crowfoot and black button. They are harmful because they spread rapidly and make the soil poor. Even some of those are used as cures.
    NETTLES are given to young turkeys and people use them in the spring because they are good for the blood.
    They DOCK root is a cure for a nettle sting and is also given to calves for a cough and it is used for a pain in the back.
    SCUTCH grass is a cure for bad kidneys.
    FOXGLOVE is used for heart disease and also for coughs.
    TANSY is a cure for pip in chickens.
    HERB ROBERT is used for murrin in cattle.
    The GROUNDSEL weed mixed with lard was used to cure a whitlow.
    In olden times MILK WEED was
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
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    C. Ní Chuinn
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