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School: Maigh Locha (Cailíní)

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Maigh Locha, Co. na Gaillimhe
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Eibhlín, Bean Uí Challaráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0081, Page 172

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    warmed duilleógín-pádraig by the fire. They then clapped it with their hands to make it soft. Next they put it over the boil and cured it. If a person got a sting of a nettle they put a cupóige-sráide near it and it cured it. If a person had a wart they bruised the juice of a dandelion on it. People also boiled dandelions in water they strained it then and drank the water. It was supposed to cure a cold. If meacan-na- gcaoire was boiled in milk and the milk drund it would cure a pain. If a horse had worms and she were to eat the radóg it would cure her.
    Herbs that can be eaten.
    When people had not any cabbage to eat they cooked nettles. Piges ate cloachán. Múnógs were also eaten.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. cleachtas an leighis
        1. leigheas dúchasach (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peggie Niland
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Maigh Locha, Co. na Gaillimhe
    Informant
    Simon Mullin
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    78
    Address
    An tEanach Mór Thoir, Co. na Gaillimhe