School: Ballyhogue
- Location:
- Ballyhoge, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Mrs. Margaret Cahill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0902, Page 235
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - Some wild herbs are St. John's herb and lady-fingers, dandelion, black buttons, canabhán beag, water-grass, butcher's broom and nettles. The St. John's herb and canabhán beag cure worm-fever, and nettles are good for the blood. Dandelion is used to cure consumption and butcher's broom is used to cure kidney trouble.
The harmful weeds are thistles scutch-grass, praiseach, docks and groundsel. Scutchgrass and docks are poisonous for animals. Groundsel is given to birds to eat. - Yellow jaunders was cured as follows:-
Barbery shrub was procured and the bark removed. It was then boiled in new milk for half-an-hour.
There are some people living in Ballyhogue now who can cure certain ailments(continues on next page)
