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School: Gallow (roll number 8301)

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Gallow, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Cáit, Bean Uí Mhuirín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0689, Page 370

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  1. Béaloideas - Names of Weeds

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    People eat nettles boiled and they are very good for the blood.
    They eat dandelion leaves raw, they are good for the blood too.
    Weeds for animals
    Capogs are cut up and given to the pigs. Wild Alder is given to them and thistles is boiled and given to them. Ivy is given to the cattle and sheep.
    Wild poppy is poison and the poison is in the top of it, it is not used for anything. Celandine is a weed that the leaves of it are boiled with lard, cures the ring worm, it is found in the woods and ditches in Spring.
    Patty Mullally
    Parish Coole
    Townland Gallow
    25-4-38
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    English
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    Patty Mullally
    Address
    Gallow, Co. Meath