School: Ballycastle Boys' (roll number 14290)
- Location:
- Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mícheál de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0140, Page 100
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- (continued from previous page)The leaves are crushed and the juice extracted and given in cold water. The former for Kedney trouble hence its bad name because of being prepared and given to patients by unskilled persons. (A decoction of the plant) It is one of our prettiest wayside flowers but is never gathered by the children. The Ivy leaf applied to corns gives relief.
The lady fern is us to cure burns and scalds (An ointment made with fresh butter.) The sorrel is a very good tonic eaten raw. The seeds of nettles are good for giving spirit to horses and the nettles is often used as a vegtable and is a good blood purifier.
The deadly night shade makes a deadly poison. Monks-hood is also poisonous.
A lovely yellow dye is made from moss. The blossoms of whins also make a pretty yellow colour.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Dan Lenihan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Polke
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 63
- Address
- Ballinglen, Co. Mayo
