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School: Tang (roll number 8037)

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Tang, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
T. Ó Caisil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0746, Page 571

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    The most harmful weeds are thistles, crow-foot, "robin run the hedge" and scutch grass and Preshaugh. Some of the other weeds are nettles, Dockans, Furáns, dandelion, Gosthun. All these weeds spread and grow rapidly and make the soil poor and injure the crops.
    Furáns grow always on rich land and thistles grow very rapidly on rich land. An herb called Horehound is good for colds. Dandelion is good for the blood. Gosthun is good for curing boils. The horehound and are are made into syrups. Gosthum (the leaf off) is applied to boil.
    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
    Michael Conlon
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Mr M. Conlon
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Rathmore, Co. Longford