School: Arva (C.)
- Location:
- Arvagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mrs Mc Govern
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- (continued from previous page)ulcer will break it. If chicken-weed is roasted and put on an sprain or swelling it will cure it. Dock leaves boiled in milk cures a cold. An ivy leaf roasted on the fire until it is brown, will take out a corn. Plaintain leaf if boiled in water, and then applied to a sore will heal it. There are others besides these. The "buachalan buidhe" grows in dry land. It grows to a height of about two feet, and its leaves are very indented. It is called the horse of the fairies. Here is a verse connected with it.
"All over the hills and valleys so green.
The "buachalan buidhe" in its glory is seen.
Some call it a weed, and a weed it may be,
But not to the fairies, the "buachalan buidhe"
Thistles grow in dry land. They are very(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eilish Calders
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Arvagh, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mrs Calders
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 47
- Occupation
- Blacksmith's wife
- Address
- Arvagh, Co. Cavan
