School: Nuadhchongbháil (Nohoval) (roll number 10326)
- Location:
- Scart, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Siobhán, Bean Uí Riada
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- (continued from previous page)food. The root of the dock leaf is used for sore eyes and the leaf is used for the sting of an nettle.
Bainne caoin (Irish spurge) is used for poisoning salmon, it is uesd with milk and is put into the water. If cows drink the water it would kill them.
Comfrey is an unfailing cure for sprains and bruises, it is pounded and plaster to the swollen part, It is got in rich farns, The berry of a yew tree is a poison, It was growing in Blenner Hasset's estate of Bally Seedy, and it killed many of his cattle.
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- Kattie Mc Elliotrim
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- c. 43
- Occupation
- Teacher