The weeds that grow wild in our vegetable garden are, dockleaves, chickweed, nettles, thistles, buachalláin, and coltsfoot, these are the most harmful perhaps. The dockleaves, thistles, nettles, and buachalláin are harmful because they are deep rooted and they make the soil poor. The chickweed and the coltsfoot are not as bad as the others because they are not as deep rooted in the soil. These weeds spread quickly and they stop others plants near them from growing. The herbs that are in this district are, cowslips, horse-raddish, ivy, comfrey, dockleaves, chickweed, elder-berries, garlic, marsh-mallow, and the goose-berry thorn. The cowslip is used for yellow-jaundice. It is boiled and the juice is drunk. The stems of the ivy is boiled and the juice

There are a few weeds, I know of, such as, Chicken Weed, Coltsfoot, Wicks, Watercress, Comfrey, Nettles, Gorywoag; Blisce, Blisceãn, Thistles, Bocalãn, and the Fuarãn.
The Chicken Weed is used for colds. The Coltsfoot is a harmful weed for the potatoes. Wicks are bad for grass. Watercress if good for the people's health in the Spring time.
Comfrey is good for healing cuts and sores. Gorywoag is harmful to potatoes and oats. Bliscoãn is good for some people's health. The Fuarán is used for feeding pigs.

The names of weeds that does most harm to the land are Caupog's Thistles, Coltsfoot, Bauchlawn, Dandaline, Ferbawn and Forane. They are very harmful to the crops because they smother the stalks if they are not pulled. They will not let the stalks grow. They also take the moisture out of the land and so the crops have no moisture and they fail away.
The names of weeds that grow in good land are Thistles, Bauchlawns and Dandalines.
The names of weeds that grow in bad land are Caupogs Coltsfoot

The most harmful weeds to be found in our gardens are, the nettles, chickweed, Buachalláin, coltsfoot and thistles. Dockleaves are to be found also. All these weeds are found growing in our vegetable garden.
The dockleaves, nettles, thistles, and Buachalláin are deep rooted and are harmful because they make the soil poor. Coltsfoot and chickweed prevent plants from growing because they spread quickly.
Certain kinds of herbs have medicinal properties. The commonest are, "the Duáchall a'tighe" which is used for eyes, and grows on eaves of houses. Bouglas is used for toothache and worms and cattle. Garlic is used for worms also, "comfrey" is used for sprains a?

There are several weeds which destroy the crop such as bráisce which grows in oats. It has a very long stem and a yellow flower on the stem. There is another bad weed called the coltsfoot. There is a short stem on this weed and a leaf in the shape of a horse's hoof.
The Garlic is a good herb. It is crushed and given to calves before they get milk. It is a cure

The most harmful weeds that are found in this district in our vegetable gardens are dockleaves, nettles, chickweed, buacalláin, thistles and coltsffoot. The deep rooted ones are the nettles, dockleaves, buachalláins and thistles: they make the soil poor. The chickweed and coltsfoot are harmful; they spread quickly and prevent plants from growing near them. The herbs that have medicine properties are the dandelion. It is boiled and people drink it for medicine. The roots of ferns are for rheumatism they are boiled and eaten. Garlic is given to cattle as a cure for worms. Chickweed is for people as a cure for a sore neck. The marsh-mallow

There are many weeds which are destructive to the crops. The aineach, samsog, dock, thistle, coltsfoot, nettle and chicken weed are the commonest. All these spread rapidly and choke up the plant. Others are poisonous like the hemlock eaten only by goats and ragwart eaten by sheep.
The uses obtained out of plants and herbs were many. Nettles, cut up were given to young turkeys. Beer was also made out of them. Docks were cut up, boiled and given to pigs. They are also useful for stopping the pain of the nettle's sting. The dandelion, a little yellow flower was used for curing headaches and other minor complaints.

The weeds which do great harm to the land are ivy and coltsfoot and the capóg and the chicken-weed. The harm they do is they take away the manure from the plant. The ivy will twist around the oats on the stalk and will not let them grow. Capógs grow in rich soil and thistles grow in rich soil. The (rav) raithneach grows in poor soil and the clúdhán.
The Hemlock. This plant is used for curing a broken bone. This is how it is used. It has to be broken up and boiled and this has to be put up to the

Long ago people used herbs for all their medicinal purposes. Here are some of the most common ones which they believed to have cures and they were also used for other purposes.
Dandelion is good for the liver and consumption. It was boiled in milk and drank, but if it was not drunk before a certain time it would not cure.
It was also used for making wine.
The coltsfoot is good for lungs and burns.
The bordock is good for

supposed to be a great cure for consumption.
From the dandelion whose yellow flowers are seen in nearly every field the wine is made from the flowers and the leaves make food, medicine and a vegetable.
Nettles are useful vegetables and medicine and are used for food for young turkeys.
The dock though hated by the farmer had many uses in medicine and also a cure for the sing of a nettle.
The ragweed seems to have no use whatever.
Coltsfoot

They herbs that do most damage to land are Dock-leaf, blackhead, thistle, samsog, chickweed, crowsfoot, coltsfoot, spearmint, wild carrot and parsnip, glarawn, slachtown, St Patrick cabbage, horehound, awna, mousearor, blisgawn, diarean, buachalawn or keeldock, dodder, poison ivy, peas or vetches and brawsga.
The first 12 grow in poor land and the remainder in rich land. The herbs that have cures are:-
Dock-leaf: for a sore throat or cracked lips and burns.
Samsag - for asthma.
Spearmint: for applying to cuts.
A weed called "barnwort" has a cure for swine fever.
Another weed called "buachaill a'tige" has a cure for boils and ringworms. This weed grows on the walls of houses Tehre is a weed growing in sandy places, the juice of which, if applied to cuts, soon heals them.

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The cumfree (lus an ionáimh)?? has a strong underground stem. It was a healer for cuts. It was scraped and made into a pulp and put to the cut as a healer. The leaves and ?? made excellent fodder for horses.
Glasra Coille (The Wood Plant) was used as an ointment. It was boiled with unsalted butter, a daisy and primrose. It made a kind of ointment which was rubbed of a child as a preventative against a skin disease such as Fealamha
The nettle (neantóg) was a cure for hoarseness. It was boiled and the juice given to the person as a cure. It was also used as a purifier in the spring. Nettles boiled with bacon were often used as a vegetable when other vegetables were scarce.
The Coltsfoot (earoine) has

A very common cure for a rash that comes on newly born babies and which is called the fiolún is got from a plant called "glas a' chuillinn". It is also used in other skin diseases.
A cure for coughs was got by mixing "luibh na casachta", with various ingredients.
"Áine", or coltsfoot if smoked like tobacco was supposed to be beneficial to the respiratory organs.
"Airgead luachair", or meadow sweet was beneficial in some stomach diseases.
Goose grease was a common specific for burns.
The juice of the "cupóg" or dock was considered a cure for stings.
Nettles boiled and cooked like greens in springtime were and in some places still are considered a great cure for impure blood indicated by boils etc.
Soap and sugar ground together and made into a poultice is considered useful in drawing suppurating

veining which is so prominent a feature of the latter.

is regarded as a good tonic. It is usually found growing in a stream which comes from a spring well. People eat it.
Camomile flowers are boiled and their juice is used to bather sore eyes.
Coltsfoot ("Aire" was given to me as it is Irish equivalent) is used to give cattle that have a cough.
Pain in the back: Apply parafin oil and rub well.
Gooses lard is used to reduce swelling
Burn :(1) Apply turpentine. 2
(2) Apply the white of an egg.
Rheumatism: and Neuritis: (1) Rub parafin oil.
(2) Drink a small quantity of water in which washing-soda has been dissolved every morning.
Bee - sting: (1) apply a bit of blue.
Nettle-burn (1) Apply a moistered "copoz", a large flat leaved herb, very common everywhere.
Colic: (1) boiled milk and ginger.
(2) Brandy.
(3) Apply a hot lid (covered with a bag) to stomach.
(4) Apply a bag of roasted coarse salt to stomac
All these cures disseminate the gas and make i come through the mouth.
Pleurisy: bleed the legs.