School: Athboy (C.)
- Location:
- Baile Átha Buí, Co. na Mí
- Teacher: Brighid, Bean Uí Mhácháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0696, Page 468
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- (continued from previous page)left over the sore for a few day.
There is a certain herb for curing the jaundice but know one knows it but the person who cures it. Dandelion cures warts. You must put the white of it on the wart.
Marchmallis cures swelling. You must boil it and bathe the swelling with it.
Some people eat nettles in Spring for the skin. They also eat water-grass and sorrel for food.
Turkeys eat nettles and dandelion. Pigs eat dackens.
Nettles are boiled for turkeys. Dackens are cut up for pigs.
There is a story connected with the colour of flowers, that bees change their colour from year to year mostly tulips.
Ivy leaf dyes navy blue. Elder berries dyes black clothes. the mulleun plant and laurel leaves clean clothes. Moss dyes green(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mamie Rispin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baile Átha Buí, Co. na Mí
- Informant
- James Rispin
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baile Átha Buí, Co. na Mí
