School: Caime (roll number 11380)
- Location:
- Caim, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Liam Ó Reagáin
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HerbsBuacalán or ragweed blossom is harmful because it destroys honey.
Praiseach / Prashuck or Charlock is a yellow weed that grows in corn.
Sorrel, a weed of a yellow brownish colour gives oxalic acid.
Lady's finger or fox glove, was used as a cure for heart trouble.
Tansy, small yellow flowers common on old pasture was used with buttermilk for a sun burn.
Mint is used for flavouring sauce.
Camomile was also a great herb long ago, Small bags were stuffed with the flower of the Camomile and steeped in boiling water and it would relieve a head-ache,
Marsh mallow was boiled and used for a sprain.
Long ago nettles were used as food.
The dandelion was used as pig feeding.
Balm was used for colds.The most destructive weeds growing on our farm are, docks, yellow-bottom, nettles, ferns, thistles, milk weed.Mary Martin. Caim N.S.
Age 14
- Collector
- Mary Martin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
