School: Baile Dháithí, Dunlavin
- Location:
- Baile Dháith, Co. Chill Mhantáin
- Teacher: Róisín Bhreathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0915, Page 107
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- (continued from previous page)rubbing black ink on them
- A cure or a disease?
The "Mogaleen Myne" (as pronounced) and sometimes like Mogailín Meidhreach or Tormenting Root, grows in a bog or marshy place (Danesfort and Munroe for example). It has a small white root with pink centre. When boiled in milk in "a little black tin", and when the milk is given to a person to drink - That person "cannot be kept away from the giver"! In this part of the country, when a young
Contd. on page 115.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Rose Walshe
- Gender
- Female
