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Shannow Wood, Co. Cavan
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B. Ó Ciaráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1025, Page 278

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    herbs have been used for cures for people and animals such as the hemlock dandalion, and Chicken-weed.
    Hemlock is used as a cure for a horses swollen joint.
    The most harmful weed in Clara is chicken weed. It spreads over a lot of ground in a short space of time. The thistles and dockens grow where the land is badly laboured.
    Thistles are a cure for a sick pig. They are cut up into small pieces and put through her meat.
    Chicken weed is used for a burn. They are warmed on the fire and butter is rubbed on it, and left on the burn
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Edward Rudden
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Claragh, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Mary Rudden
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    76
    Address
    Claragh, Co. Cavan