School: Virginia (B)

Location:
Achadh an Iúir, Co. an Chabháin
Teacher:
E. Ó Raghallaigh
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  3. XML “Our Holy Wells - St Kilian's Well”
  4. XML “Herbs - Nettles”

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    on Saint Kilian's Day but their efforts failed. The well was forgotten about ever since. Here is one fo the poems about the great St. Kilian. I will write the first verse.

    Nursed beneath an Irish mountain by an Irish mother's hand,
    Where the mild Borora whispers to the meadows of the land.
    Taught the music of the harper and the anthems of the blest,
    Killian grew as grows the ash-tree by the ruins of the west.

    Matthias O'Reilly
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. A cure for a bad stomach is to get nettles and cut them up in little bits. Then put cold water on them and boil them. When the nettle are boiled the person who has a bad stomach drinks the nettle water.
    One way to make Turkeys fat is to boil Indian meal and cut the nettles up in little bits
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. cleachtas an leighis
        1. leigheas dúchasach (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Philip Daly
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Rahardrum, Co. an Chabháin