School: An Churrach (Crogh), Árd Fhionáin (roll number 7911)

Location:
Curragh, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Mícheál Ó Dubhshláine
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0572, Page 298

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  1. XML School: An Churrach (Crogh), Árd Fhionáin
  2. XML Page 298
  3. XML “Snárlus”
  4. XML “Milk Thistle”
  5. XML “The Buttercup”
  6. XML (no title)
  7. XML “Camomile”

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  1. Snarlús is an herb which grows on the ground and has a blossom of black nobs. Commonly called Soldier's. People boil it, put the juice into milk & give it to delicate children to drink.
    Milk Thistle is a kind of soft thistle. If you squeeze the juice of it, it is like milk and when rubbed to warts will take them away.
    The Buttercup does harm to land for tillage but if cows eat it, it will make the milk and butter good.
    There is a weed which grows on piers or ruins of old houses. It has a small leaf and a pink blossom, & is supposed to cure Murrain in cows.
    Camimile is a weed which grows in boggy places. To make a poultice of it & poppy heads, & apply to mumps or a sore ear as a sure remedy.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mícheál Ó Domhnaill
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Knockballiniry, Co. Tipperary
  2. Milk Thistle is a kind of soft thistle. If you squeeze the juice of it, it is like milk and when rubbed to warts will take them away
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  3. (no title)

    There is a weed which grows on...

    There is a weed which grows piers or ruins of old houses. It has a small leaf and a pink blossom and is suppose to cure Murrain in cows.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  4. Camimile is a weed which grows in boggy places. To make a poultice of it and poppy heads and apply to mumps or a sore ear as a sure remedy.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.