School: Tigneatha
- Location:
- Tynagh, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Caomhánaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0053, Page 0120
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“Garlic is used for a very bad form of mumps.”
(continued from previous page)for the yellow- jaundice. Carrigeen moss is used for coughs and is got on the sea shore. Ivy leaf is great for burns Briar leaves are used for colds. A dogleaf is a cure for burns of nettles People say that the wild tea cures cancer It grows in the ditches. Groundsel is used for feeding birds. Some people boil nettles and eat them. There was a herb called gladam. First they would pound the gladam and put it to your neck and leave it twenty four hours on. They say it always cured the mumps
There is another herb called anlóg. It scatters and destroys crops. There is an old saying about the preasac bhuidhe "one year's growing means seven years' weeding. Garlic is a cure for bad rash on the face
- Collector
- Mary Quirke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cappacuilla, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Michael Leahy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Tynagh, Co. Galway