School: Ceathrú na Laithighe (Brownsgrove) (roll number 12138)
- Location:
- Brownsgrove, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó hAnnracháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0040, Page 0537
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- (continued from previous page)reason for the latter name being that you would get red eyes if you had anything to do with them.It will be a bad year and the potatoes will be bad and scarce if these grow. It will be a good year and there will be plenty of good potatoes if there area lot of mushrooms out.
There were cures in certain weeds and herbs. For instance a cure for burns was Bileog na Saor which grew wild out in the fields. It was a tall plant with a thick stalk and big wide leaves, and a cure for a nettle burn was to rub a piece of dock leaf on the sore. A cure for boils was to drink water in which crádáns had been boiled.
Some herbs and weeds are also given as food to fowl and animals. Nettles when boiled and the water squeezed out of them, and then chopped up and mixed with oat-meal are an excellent food for young turkeys.
There are bad herbs in some land which are very bad for sheep, and this is the reason why some people keep goats, because it is said that
the goats eat up any of those bad herbs which(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Mc Gagh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Beagh (Browne), Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mary Healy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 73
- Address
- Marley, Co. Galway
