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School: Termonfeckin (roll number 16209)

Location:
Termonfeckin, Co. Louth
Teacher:
T. Ó Corcoráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0676, Page 085

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    the leaves of dandeloins and the lesser celadines. Then they would bring them home and cook them seperatly. Then they would eat them with salt and pepper. This was to purify their blood in the cold Spring weather.
    When a person would get a sprained leg or wrist or swoolen joints, the people would gather the Comefray root. Then they would put it on the leg and it would be cured.
    The Comefray root has a large green leaf and a little purple flower grows on it. When a person gets a sting of an nettle the put the capoe leaf on it and say , capoe cooa go about take the sting of an nettle "out".
    There is another herb
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    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
    Mary Sheridan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Baltray, Co. Louth
    Informant
    Mr Peter Sheridan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Baltray, Co. Louth