School: Cill Cruim / Killocrim (roll number 17072)
- Location:
- Killacrim, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Micheál Óg Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0407D, Page 18_051
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- (continued from previous page)and when the juice goes in the water and the fish drink it that water will kill them. Bud gabhrán is a weed that grows in a potato garden and it keeps the growth from the stalks.
Clover and mínscoth grow on rich land. Felistriums makes the land poor. Chickenweed grows in boggy gardens. If you caught the root of it, it would run from end to end of the drill. Wild garlic is used for worms in cows' tails. The tail is slit open and a mixture of soot and garlic is inserted in the cut. Then a cloth is rapped round the cut. After a few days when the cut is healed the cloth falls off.
- Collector
- Eamonn Bairéad
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killacrim, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Thomas Barrett
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killacrim, Co. Kerry
