School: Carron / Carthan (roll number 7573)
- Location:
- Carran, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Muirthille
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0616B, Page 13_023
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- (continued from previous page)here, are the dandelion, Patricks leaf, garlic, cumphrey, mian vear, riveal rígh and turkey weed.
The thistles and ferns go great harm to the land, because where they are growing nothing else will grow. The herbs that grow only in good land are, nettles, thistles and ferns. The herbs that grow only in bad land are heather and furzes. The dandelion is a great cure for kidney disease. Saint Patricks leaf is a good cure for a burn. Garlic is a cure for black leg. Ríbheal rígh is a cure for murrain in cattle and turkey weed is a cure for pains in bones. People used dye clothes with the bark three and they used also dye them with macaniulean
- Collector
- Bhueronica Ní Conmara
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilcorney, Co. Clare
