Scoil: Druim na dTréad

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1. Herbs (ar lean)

   

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   The juice of touching-heal is a wash used for boils. The soup of the garlick, an herb found in every garden, is a good cure for a cold or cough with people or animals. The camemile tea is a wash for weak or sore eyes.
   There are no traditions explaining the size, shape or colour of any of our local herbs.
   The docken boiled is often given to a horse that is wind-broken and it is said to be a great help to him. It will also take the sting of a nettle out, raw, if you say while rubbing it to the sting "docken, docken in and out take the sting of a nettle out". Nettles are boiled in porrige and given to young turkeys and chickens and long ago the people used to pound them through the "colcannon". The leaves of the hoar-hound long ago were dried and tea made out of them. "Thistles" (thistles) when boiled are an excellent mash for a sow with a litter of young pigs. Dandelions as well as nettles are a good feed for hens and ducks. Chicken - weed is given to young pigs. Sorrell of two kinds cuckoo and clock sorrell is a great thirst - quencher. The thirsty school children love to eat this herb on their homeward journey from school. Peppermint, an herb found in every

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