School: Kilcullen (B.)
- Location:
- Kilcullen, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Broin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0776D, Page 16_015
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Kilcullen (B.)
- XML Page 16_015
- XML “Herbs and Plants”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Herbs were used very often long ago as cures and poisins and also for food and toys
The old cure for 'Johndus' was to eat a plate of nettles The nettles were first boiled well, which took the sting from them. It tasted very like spinach though not so nice. The cure acts quicker if the nettles are young.
Ferns were used for rheumatism by constant rubbing on the affected spots.
- Collector
- Peadar O Díosca
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Halverstown, Co. Kildare
