School: Cluain Tuirc (B.)
- Location:
- Cloonturk, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Ó Conchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0217, Page 190
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- (continued from previous page)The way the Garlic is used is used is, it is covered with grease or lard and tied and around the animals tail. The Bogbean is boild and the water of it is mixed with milk and given to the animals to drink.Some of the the herbs and plants are used as food for the people. Dandoline is used for weak stomachs. Hemlock for curing pains, nettles for nettle rash, chicken weed for swellings, house leek and stone crop for worms in children also rhagogs. Garlic for colds, whins for horses to kill worms. Rhodedanarum is a poisonous plant also hemlock Heather was used in olden times for drying also when blossom and buttercups.In olden time people always used herbs for cured we know very little about them. Old Charlie Reynolds has a collection of them in his garden and is curing people with them
