School: An Chúil Árd (roll number 12587)
- Location:
- Coolard, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Seán Ó Duilleáin
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- (continued from previous page)cure for cough in the dandelion. The juice of the bog-onion is good for a sprain or for stiffness. The horse's tongue is a cure for boils or to stop blood.
- The are many herbs growing on the land. The chief ones are Meadchain Tathú, Lossorleen, Slánlus, Water-cress, Crowscruds, Marsh Malas and Comfrey. Meadchain Táthu is a cure for a toothache. It should be put into a cloth and bruised and put up to the cheek hot. It is poison. Lossorleen is also poison. It kills the sheep. Slánlus is a cure for stopping bleeding. Marsh Malas is a cure for sprains. The are many weeds also. The Dock-leaves, Nettles, Thistles, and Buachaláns grow in abundance.
- Collector
- Maurice Kennelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilgarvan, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Michael Kennelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Kilgarvan, Co. Kerry
- These are the herbs that grow on the land:- The chicken-weed is used for feeding chickens. Nettles are used for feeding hens. Nettles would also burn you and the dock-leaves would cure it. The yellow root is used for poisoning fish in rivers. The fairy thimble is a cure for the heart. Slánlus is good to stop blood. Patricks Hand is also used to stop blood. Ryme branches are used for dyeing.