School: Baile Mhic Dáibhid (Ballydevitte) (roll number 3854)
- Location:
- Ballydevitt Beg, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Cathal Mac an Luain
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1031, Page 337
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Baile Mhic Dáibhid (Ballydevitte)
- XML Page 337
- XML “Herbs”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)The weeds harmful to crops may be found growing plentifully along the roadside and in the fields. The most common are hemlock, chickenweed, nettles, dockings, meadow-sweet and watercress, which grows in drains. Some of these weeds spread rapidly. They are generally found where the land is not very good.Hemlock is a very poisonous plant and is avoided by all animals. Long ago, chickenweed, when boiled, was given to young turkeys. In the Spring-time, nettle-tea, a decoxtion made from the leaves of nettles, was given to children and was supposed to be a good blood purifier. The “Buachaillin buidhe”, another weed, was so called because of its yellow colour.A grey weed called “crottle,” which grows on rocks, when boiled, dyes clothes a dark brown colour. Long ago, this was used by the old spinners for dyeing the yarn. Ivy-leaves and briar-roots were also used for dyeing. Doctors were very scarce(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick J. Muldoon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Doonan, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Bean Uí Maoldúin
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 36
- Address
- Doonan, Co. Donegal
