School: Gleanntán
- Location:
- An Gleanntán, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Daghnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0383, Page 084
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- The most harmful weed that grows on the land is thistle because when it grows up and gets big the seed blows around to all parts of the field and impoverishes the soil. The daisy grows upon bad land and dock-roots grow on good land. The herbs that were used for cures and are still used by the people are as follows the dandelion the penny leaf, the tansy and ivy leaves. Dandelion is used by the people that have warts, the juice should be squeezed out of the dandelion and put up to the wart to cure them. Penny leaves are used by people that have corns by boiling the leaves well and putting them up to the corns as hot as the sufferer could bear it. Tansy is given to young turkeys that have the pip. The tansy is(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Esther Mc Carthy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Cathair Laga, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Mr William Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
- Occupation
- Labourer
- Address
- Cathair Laga, Co. Chorcaí
