School: Newtown, Kells (roll number 5053)
- Location:
- An Baile Nua (Shea), Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: (ní thugtar ainm)
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- (continued from previous page)The milky weed is used for curing warts. When the stem is broken, a sort of milk is in the stem, and the milked is rubbed on the wart. After a while the wart falls off.
Dandelion is given to young turkeys to strengthen them.
People boil nettles and eat them for their health.
Alder berries are used for dyeing clothes. They produce a wine colour.
Black berries are used for dyeing clothes also.- Collector
- Brigid Ní Longáin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An tAgard, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Informant
- Edward Long
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 69
- Address
- An tAgard, Co. Chill Chainnigh