School: Boulavogue
- Location:
- Boleyvogue, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Énrí Tréinfhear
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0890, Page 231
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- 231HerbsSome of the herbs which grow around here are :- ivy, rib-grass, dandelion, blood-wort, sorrel, pig-weed, docks, lady-fingers, nettles, garlic, praiseach, lamb's ear, barbary bark, penny-leaf. Ivy is a cure for cattle's eyes. The cure is made by first chewing the ivy and boiling it, and then straining the water off and putting it under the cattle's eye-lids. Nettles are a cure for pimples and when boiled they are good for the blood. Docks are a cure for nettle stings, when you chew up the docks and put it (the juice) on the stings. Blood wort is a cure for the blood-murrain by eating these these as they grow, Sorrels are eaten by people to strengthen the heart. The harmful weeds which grow around here are :- ragweeds, thistles, chicken-weed, brisrs, black-buttons, rushes, ferns, yellow-daisies, and dog-briars. These weeds are harmful because they grow very plentifully in fields of corn, and they smother up the corn and take up the land whee the corn would be growing. Barbary-bark is a good thing for the blood. Praiseach is a good thing for people to eat. Pennyleaf is a poison, and it cures the pep in chickens.Gerard Leacy.
These stories were told to me by my mother,
Mrs M. Leacy, (38)
Carrigeen, Ferns, Co Wexford
- Collector
- Gerard Leacy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrigeen, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Mrs M. Leacy
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 38
- Address
- Carrigeen, Co. Wexford
