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1. Our Holy Wells - St Kilian's Well (continued)

   

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   on Saint Kilian's Day but their efforts failed. The well was forgotten about ever since. Here is one fo the poems about the great St. Kilian. I will write the first verse.

   
   Nursed beneath an Irish mountain by an Irish mother's hand,

   Where the mild Borora whispers to the meadows of the land.

   Taught the music of the harper and the anthems of the blest,

   Killian grew as grows the ash-tree by the ruins of the west.

   
   Matthias O'Reilly

   

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2. Herbs - Nettles

   

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   A cure for a bad stomach is to get nettles and cut them up in little bits. Then put cold water on them and boil them. When the nettle are boiled the person who has a bad stomach drinks the nettle water. One way to make Turkeys fat is to boil Indian meal and cut the nettles up in little bits

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Philip Daly

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Rahardrum, Co. Cavan