School: Clonlara
- Location:
- Cloonlara, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Dll. Ó Heoghanáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0585, Page 036
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- Herbs
The herbs that do the most harm to the farmer, crows foot, chicken weed, thistles, nettles and dock leaves.The crow foot spreads along the ground and smothers up the crops and the chicken weeds smothers up the plants and makes them grow wild.The herbs that grow in poor land are rushes, ellistrums and bluebells. The herbs that grow in rich land or black buttons, daisies, thistle and clover.The herbs that cure diseases are dandelion, nettles, sorrel, mountain sage and water cress.The dandelion is a blood purifier. It is said that if you eat three meals of nettles in March you will never get fever. Mountain cress is supposed to cure liver disease. And watercress enriches the blood. Withered Briar leaves are supposed to cure bleeding piles.The dandylion is drawn like tea and drank. Nettles are boiled and eaten like cabbage. The mountains sage is used like dandelion and watercress is used like salad.The print of a horseshoe is seen on the horse chestnut tree because it is said that once a fairy man went to get his horse shod at the forge and that the blacksmith shod the horse under the horse chestnut tree. The poplar tree is cursed because it did not bow down like all the other trees(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Chrissie Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Murphy
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Occupation
- Clerk
- Address
- Cloonlara, Co. Clare
