School: Cill Tormóir (Cailíní)
- Location:
- Kiltormer, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Rós, Bean Uí Cheallacháin
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- (continued from previous page)the cold hard days of Winter, every person is delicate and they need nourishment.
Cow-slips are made wine of, and the wine is very good to drink.
There is also dandelion wine made.
Milk is very good to drink, on account of all the herbs the cows eat.
There are some herbs which are poisonous to animals. There is a disease called a ? which cattle and sheep often get.There are herbs which do an amount of damage to crops, such as scutch grass, chickenweed, finger and toe and many others. In some places where the finger and toe is plentiful, the people cannot grow turnips or marigolds.
There is another herb called the black heads and it is said there is a cure in it for carabunkels.The old people also got leaves of ivy trees for healing. They also made ointment from them.
