School: Clochar na Trócaire, Sligeach
- Location:
- Sligo, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: An tSiúir Aibhistín
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Clochar na Trócaire, Sligeach
- XML Page 329
- XML “Local Superstition”
- XML “Herbs”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
- There are a great variety of herbs in this locality. They were used very much for cures by the people of the locality. The most plentiful herbs and weeds in this locality are docks or dockings, as they are locally called, rushes, briars, Fearaban, whins, chickweed, glasherlane and "buacallans" or ragweeds.
Buacallans grow in dry firm land and docks grow in wet land. Button weeds grow in the meadow. Briars grow in all kinds of soil, and we get blackberries from them in Autumn. Ramps(continues on next page)