School: Cúl Mín, Inis
- Location:
- Coolmeen, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Dd. Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0603, Page 385
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- (continued from previous page)Castabhran, Turkey-pansey, buacalán buidhe, thistles, nettles, chicken weed and dock leaves. Castabhran and nettles a3e give to fowl and pigs. Turkey-pansey is given with a boiled egg to young turkeys.
- A straw a coal and a bean went for a walk. They came to a stream and the straw laid across it The coal began to walk over it and he burned the straw and fell in The bean burst his sides laughing and a tailor sowed him with black thread. Since that day the bean has a black mark.
- Long ago the old people had a lot of curs for diseases. Chicken-weed cure a burn, from a nettle. A potatoe cures a sore eye. There are many weed that are poisonous to birds or animals. Crows-foot kills horses, buaclán buidhe kills cows. Ivy is good to colour wool for stockings
- Collector
- Mary Price
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Moy, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Martin Price
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moy, Co. Clare
- Nettles are used for feeding turkeys. Bog onions cure a sprained leg or hand. Sea-weed cures a horses swoolen leg. People often eat water-cress which is usually(continues on next page)
