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School: Gort an Tuair (roll number 13467)

Location:
Gortatoor, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Áine Nic Oirealla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0141, Page 498

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    boiled in a pot. The stems are then taken off and the leaves are mixed with indian meal. The mixture is fine food for the young birds.
    Many white thorn bushes grow in the fields; it is not right to bring in a white-thorn bush into the house or to burn it. Neither is it right to make a walking-stick out of it, because it was from the white-thorn bush that the Crown of Thorns was made that was place on our Saviour's Head.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    Katie Bourke
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Carrowkeel, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mrs Bourke
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Carrowkeel, Co. Mayo