School: Clochar na Trócaire, Sligeach
- Location:
- Sligo, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: An tSiúir Aibhistín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0160, Page 330
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grow in woods and it puts a taste on cow's milk when they eat it.
Ivy, a sort of creeper grows very plentifully in this locality is a very good cure for corns Glasherlane an herb found in swampy ground is a very good cure for rheumatism, and I have known of it to cure a person myself.
Fearaban a weed very commonly found in pasture land is used locally for the feeding of pigs, and even some people boil them instead of cabbage.
Chickweed when roasted proves a most effective cure when roasted for sprains and swollen joints. There is a herb called "Barrac Buide" which grows in old ruins. It is a great cure for jaundice.
This information was received from John Gallagher, Cairns View(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peggy Harkin
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Gallagher
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cairns View, Co. Sligo
