School: Maio (roll number 13119)
- Location:
- Trohanny, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máire Ní Chreaig
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0706, Page 469
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- Different kinds of weeds grow on our farm. They are Slánlus, Fox's tongue, Lady's mantle, Dock leaves, nettles, and thistles.
If a leaf of Slánlus is chewed, and is rubbed to a raw cut it will be cured.
If fox's glove is boiled in milk, and rubbed to a thorn in a person's skin, the thorn will be taken out.
If Lady's mantle is boiled with unsalted butter, and is rubbed to a raw cut, it will be cured.
If the sticky substance at the bottom of a dock leaf is rubbed to a sting of a nettle, it will be cured.
If the roots of nettles are boiled, and the juice drunk by a person who has the measles, he will be cured.
If thistles are given to horses which have a disease called 'Boths', they will be cured.
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- Collector
- Kathleen Carolan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Druminiskin, Co. Meath
