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  1. Herbs

    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peter Marron

    There are a lot of weeds growing on the farm at home. ragweeds, docks, dandelions whins and coltsfoot.

    The whins are used for colds, the green tops are cut and boiled with water and strained, and the tops are also bruised between two flat stones, rolled in balls and given to the horses to kill botts.
    The dandelion is eaten raw, and it is good for the blood. The herbs that grow where land is bad are whins, coltsfoot, thistles and docks.
    The herbs that grow where land is good are rag weeds and dandelion. Docks are used for taking out stings of nettles. Nettle roots are boiled and the juice given to children who have measles. Burdock roots are used as a cure for a swollen neck.

  2. Herbs

    Language
    English
    Collector
    Harry Fuller

    land. Rushes are found only in poor land.
    Some herbs have medicinal properties namely nettles, coltsfoot and dandelion. The water of boiled nettles brings out the spots on a person with measles coltsfoot and dandelion clean the blood.
    There are no traditions connected with any herb or plant explaining why its flower has a certain colour, why its root is shaped as it is, or why it is small.
    Nettles are used as food for young turkeys. Herbs were used extensively as a cure in former times. The poor people used them as cures. People were relieved and cures by this means.

    Written by Henry Fuller, Hall Street, Ballybay.

  3. Herbs

    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Maguire
    Informant
    Mrs Ellen Smyth
    Age
    79

    One of the most harmful weeds growing on our farm is Coltsfoot which spreads rapidly over the whole ground covering it over, with its broad leaves, smothering the crop especially the potato crop and by its impoverishment of the soil rendering the potato crops very light.
    Another very injurious weed not altogether so bad is what is called in this part of the country the Day Nettle or Dead Nettle. This plant is very hard to get rid of because its roots divide rapidly and easily in the ground and when the ground is being cultivated these roots break into small pieces or sections

  4. Herbs

    Language
    English
    Collector
    Harold Clarke
    Age
    13

    There are many weeds growing on our farm. The names of these are thistles, wild daisy, dandelion, whins, coltsfoot, red shanks, white ash, sit fast and day nettles. These are all harmful because they spread so quickly and make the soil poor. In poor land heather is mostly found. Some herbs have medicinal properties. The names of them are fox gloves, dandelion and nettles. The fox glove is a cure for a weak heart. Nettles are good for purifying the blood and dandelion is a cure for kidney and liver disorder. The herbs were very much used in older times for cures.

  5. Local Herbs

    Language
    English

    Thistles, ragweed and rushes the most harmful of all weeds growing on my farm at home. Some are harmful because they spread rapidly, and others because they impoverish the soil. Rushes grow where the land is bad, and the thistle and ragweed where it is good.
    Chicken-weed, rose-noble, tansy, slanlis, ivy, bogbean, dandelions, violets wormwood, nettles, meadow-sweet, lemon balm, horehound, water-cress, broom, coltsfoot, orange lily roots, garlic; are some of the local herbs.
    Chicken-weed boiled is good for a strain. Ivy roots are good for cancer. Dandelions keep the blood pure. The leaves are given to hens and chickens.

  6. Herbs

    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Duffy

    in green fields and it spreads very rapidly. The farmers cut them in order to prevent them from spreading.
    Prosach is a very harmful weed which grows in oats. It has a yellow blossom and it spreads very rapidly.
    Coltsfoot is a weed that grows in turnips. It is the shape of a colt's foot and that is how it got its name.

  7. Herbs

    Language
    English

    Coltsfoot a herb with a broad green velvety leaf, the shape of a colt's foot. It is also used to heal a varicose ulcer.
    Nettles: Nettles are a troublesome herb about the hedges, ditches and field, but are most useful. They were commonly used as a soup in olden times to purify the blood in the Springtime and took the place of our new-fashioned medicine.
    The Spring-time Electuary. Nettle broth or nettle tea cleared the skin of pimples, blackhead and chilcorns.
    Dandelion: This weed from whose hollow shaped stem milk ouses is also used in making wines now-a-days. In olden times though the tea made from Dandelion leaves and flowers was also used as an inow [?] tonic and was one of Dr. Button's remedies for jaundice or sluggish liver troubles.