School: Castlegannon, Mullinavat (roll number 13028)

Location:
Caisleán Geanainn, Co. Chill Chainnigh
Teacher:
Seán Ó Riain
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0848, Page 224

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0848, Page 224

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Castlegannon, Mullinavat
  2. XML Page 224
  3. XML “Local Place Names”
  4. XML “Herbs Used Locally”

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

  1. (continued from previous page)
    17. Gort an Chnuic "The tillage field on the hill
    18. Páirc na Tórramh "The field of the wake"
    19. Cill Liath "The grey wood"
    20. An Maolán - The little bare hill.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. Penny leaf - It is used as cure for Hysteria in dogs. It is boiled in milk and given to them to drink.
    Wood Sorrell - It is used to purify the blood, but a lot of it is poisonous.
    Sam Bow - It is made into a poultice and used as a cure for a Bonn Loch.
    Crane's Bill - It is used as a cure for a murn in a cow. It is boiled in water and given to the cow to drink.
    Ground Ivy - It is used as a cure for kidney trouble. It is boiled in water and drank.
    Marsh Mallow - It is made into a poultice and used as cure for swelling
    Fothromh - It is used a cure for measles in pigs. There is a slit made in the pig's ear and the herb is put in the ear and it swells and a bit falls out and the pig is cured.
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English