School: Turloch (roll number 10286)
- Location:
- Turlough, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Éamonn Ó Maolmhuaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0120, Page 210
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- (continued from previous page)places, and big yellow flowers grow on them.There is another herb called camblemile and it is most essential for making medicine.Dock leaves are weeds and they are good for fowl, and there is another weed called a nettle which would sting you.There is another called (a) a thistle, and the people boil it and give it to pigs. There is another called a bliscán weed. It is good for a sore lip.
- Herbs
The herbs I know best are garlic and pot-margam, and taragon and solomon's seal and arum and plantain, chives and holy thistle, and(continues on next page) - Collector
- Teresa Devaney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Turlough, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Gibbons
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Drumdaff, Co. Mayo
