School: Cuilleán
- Location:
- Cuillaun, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: León P. Mac Eachmharaigh
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- Collector
- Peter Byrne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cuillaun, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Patrick Sheridan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cuillaun, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs E. Byrne
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 66
- Address
- Cuillaun, Co. Mayo
- If a person eats a feed of nettles it will cure warts. Thistles do harm to the oats. None of those herbs are used for food for people.
- He told me that about fifty years ago the people used to boil nettles and dock leaves for pigs and fowl.