School: Carraigíní (roll number 11693)

Location:: Carrigans Lower, Co. Sligo
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The juice of leek is very good as a cure for sore eyes. If we burned the leaf of the docking on a coal and take the vein out of it and tease it through our hands and leave it up to the burn, it is a very good cure. The greater part of those herbs are boiled on milk or water. Chicken-weed is a harmful weed, though it is a cure for a wart.
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Topics
1. activities
  medical practice
  folk medicine (~11,815)
Language

English
Collector
Katie Ellen Kilcoyne
Gender

Female
Address

Ardnaglass, Co. Sligo
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The most harmful of weed that grow on the farm are the "Reeds". This is a very harmful weed. They should never be pulled out of where they are growing. If you take the weed up in your hand it would put warts or blisters on

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