School: Girley, Kells (roll number 5007)
- Location:
- Girley, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Mhic Mheanmain
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- There is a green plant shaped like an onion and the name of it is garlic. The old people used to use it for a bad cough. They used to cut it up fine and boil it, when it would boiled they would strain the water off it and drink it with milk.
There is another green plant called marsh mallow, and the people used to boil it, and use the water from it for a sprained foot.
There is a green herb and it grows on the side of the road, and the name of it is crane's bill. It is used for a disease in cattle known as the blood murrain.
- Collector
- Lyla Mynes
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Girley, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Mr John Barret
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Chamberlainstown, Co. Meath
