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School: Clochar Nuala, Dún na nGall (roll number 9389)

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Donegal, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
An tSr. Eanda le Muire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1034, Page 66

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  1. Herbs

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    Garlic is a green plant with a white flower and when boiled and put round a sore throat it cures it.
    Planting Leaf is a little broad leaf which grows in fields, and is one of the herbs used in the cancer plaster.
    Mountain Sage is a little blue flower which grows on the mountain side, and it is a cure for a cough.
    Slannless which is a long green plant is a cure for cuts.
    Neamnai is a very small yellow flower and it grows on mossy banks. It is a cure sick calves.
    Cuckoo Sorrel is a little green plant like the clover, and it is in the Whitlow plaster.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Dunlevy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Donegal, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Mrs Cassidy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Drumbar, Co. Donegal