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 05_002
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- (continued from previous page)in poor land and ferns and mínscoth and buachallán. Some people used to use nettle as a vegetable. The yellow root is growing on the banks of rivers and it is deadly poison. The herb the people used long ago for dying articles is called robin-run-the-hedge.
Children were cured of the jaundice by an herb called the blue-bell. Briars grow in land and are very harmful and they yield fruit which makes jam. Elder-berry grows in the landand it maked beautiful wine, and beer is made out of an herb called hops. Water cress grows(continues on next page)
- Collector
- B. Ní Chonchubhair
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Michael O' Connor
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Finuge, Co. Kerry
