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School: Corlea

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Corlea, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
T. Ó Mearáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1009, Page 095

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    seed falls off and makes a better crop for the next year.
    Water-cress is a plant which people use themselves. It is more thought of in Summer than at any other time. It is a plant which only grows in gripes and bogs.
    There is another plant which is called mustard and cress. It grows in the same way as watercress but is a much harder plant to find. Mint is a great plant favourite to the people themselves. it grows on every farm and is mostly used for sauce. The herbs used for making medicine are dandelion, bogbane, rosenoble tormentilroot, whitelil-root, comfrey healingleaf and dock. Dandelion is a cure for stomach-trouble.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Brigid Finegan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Corlea, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Patrick Finegan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    65
    Address
    Corlea, Co. Cavan