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School: Coill an Gharráin (roll number 14865)

Location:
Killacorraun, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Mícheál Ó Riagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0152, Page 365

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    The most harmful weeds on our farm are : - Chicken-weed, Homlock, forain, rushes, cumfory, farabaun, boaclaun, nettles, copogs, thistles and ceannabhán, The following grow on good land. : - Himlock, chicken-weed, farabaun, boaclaun, copogs and thistles, The following grow on bad land : -
    Rushes, cumfory nettles and the ceannabhán, All those spread rapidly and they make the soil poor. Some of the weeds are used as cures, The chicken-weed is a cure for a swoolen knee, Warm the weed and put it in a cloth, Tie it round the knee and after a while it will be reduced, The copog
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bríghid Ní Granachán
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Creevy, Co. Mayo