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School: An Cillín (roll number 16603)

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Killin, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Séamus Mac Eachlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1036, Page 223

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    The most important herbs that the people of this district know to damage the land are: thistles, nettles, docks, red-shanks, garkan, slanlus leaf, fearbán and chicken-weed. Chicken-weed, fearbán and red-shanks generally grow through crops when they are not properly manured.
    Thistles and dandelions (gerall) generally grow on good soil. The principal ones which grow on good or bad soil, spinny, cliúne dearg, and brioseán. The following are a few of the herbs which cure diseases and which are used in the form of tea. Nettle tea is a cure for the whooping cough, balm for fevers, coltsfoot an effective cough remedy, feverfew and golden rod cure diseases of the stomach, home hound useful for colds, meadowsweet is good for kidney trouble, peppermint for vomiting, sorrel for fevers, clover for coughs, lady's slipper for headaches, and fairy thimble leaves are used as poultices for purulent tumours.
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Annie Teresa Boyle
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Anne Meehan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    76