School: Castlegannon, Mullinavat (roll number 13028)
- Location:
- Caisleán Geanainn, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: Seán Ó Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0848, Page 270
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- (continued from previous page)It should be boiled and rubbed to the sore.
The root of the dock-leaf and fresh butter is used for curing itch. You mix the dock-leaf and the fresh butter together and rub them to the itch.
- The old people had a strange way of sowing seed. When they wanted to sow whitethorn they would plait a sugán and in every plait they would put a seed Then they would turn a sod on the top of the ditch and lay down the sugan in the hollow and turn down the sod, and after a while would grow up straight.
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