School: Cloran (roll number 5282)
- Location:
- Cloran and Corcullentry, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Síle Flynn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0725, Page 0401
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- Dandelion: The leaves of the dandelion are boiled and trained and the juice is mixed with new milk and sugar, this mixture is very good for the blood.
Nettles: Young nettles cooked as a vegetable are very good for people who suffer from boils and pimples.
Laurel leaves: chopped up with lard and heated over the fire and put in a tin is a very good cure for burns.
The dock leaf to rub on the sting of a nettle is another good cure.
Bocalan is a weed with a yellow flower that grows on bad land.
The thistle is a weed that where ever the seed blows thistles grow all over the land.
- Collector
- Peter Hughes
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Paristown, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Mrs Hughes
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Paristown, Co. Westmeath
