School: Carron / Carthan (roll number 7573)
- Location:
- Carran, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Muirthille
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- (continued from previous page)asses. The weeds people can eat are, watercress. The people boil it and eat it. The cures that you can make out of herbs are, turkey weed, is a cure for rheumatism. The way to cook it is you must boil the roots and the flowers together for six and then you should put it in a jug or bottle. Yarrow is a cure for sciatica you should prepare it like turkey weed. If you got a burn of a nettle and to rub the juice of a dock leaf to it, it would take it. The milk out of the chicken weed can cure warts if(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Gearóid Breathnach
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Crughwill, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Michael Keirin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Crughwill, Co. Clare
