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School: Dring, Granard (roll number 14292)

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Dring, Co. Longford
Teacher:
James Drum
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0762, Page 158

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    The ragwort is the most harmful weed on our farm. It is said to be poisonous.
    The field dandelions and thistles are used when boiled for feeding pigs, and nettles, prepared in the same way, are used for feeding turkeys.
    Green bog moss is used for dying hand-knitted goods.
    Boiled cumfrey is used as a poultice for sore feet in animal, and swellings are sometimes bathed in water in which cumfrey roots are boiled.
    Ivy is given to sheep to keep away a disease called "fluke".
    The "smut" infects land, and grows only where land is good.
    Some people eat water-cress for good health.
    Boiled nettles are said to purify the blood.
    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
    Annie Reilly
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    10
    Address
    Ballinulty Lower, Co. Longford
    Informant
    Thomas Reilly
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    Ballinulty Lower, Co. Longford