School: The Rower (B.), Inistioge (roll number 15160)

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1. Herbs

   

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   Dock-roots, thistles, chicken-weeds, pimper-nells, daisies, dandelions, crowfoot, spunk, praseach, robin-run-the-hedge, butter-cups, nettles and penny-leaves, harm the soil.
   Shamrock and traefoil or cow-clover, daisies, pimper-nells, and butter-cups only grow in good ground. Water-cresses, nettles, spunk, and dock-roots grow in wet, swampy ground.
   Blood-weed:- The Blessed Virgin, when she cut her finger, is supposed to have rolled a leaf of this weed, around it. Rabbits-milk is said to be a good cure for warts. Night-shade is supposed to be deadly poison. Pennyleaves are used to cure corns. Ragweed is good for stopping blood. Wild violets and new milk boiled, is good for sores.

   

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2. Herbs

   

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   Some herbs are very harmful to the land. The preasach, and the thistle are most harmful. The chicken-leaf is often used for medicine, and the dog-leaf is used to cure a sting of a nettle. Nettles are used raw for young turkeys to keep them strong. The penny-leaf was used for dyeing

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   Topics

   1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. cleachtas an leighis
         1. leigheas dúchasach (~11,815)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Patrick Galavan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Cill Chonaíle, Co. Chill Chainnigh

   Informant

   Mary Galavan

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   28

   Address

   Cill Chonaíle, Co. Chill Chainnigh