School: Ballybay (Hall St.) (roll number 12378)
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- Ballybay, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: C. Ó Maonaigh
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- (continued from previous page)land. Rushes are found only in poor land.
Some herbs have medicinal properties namely nettles, coltsfoot and dandelion. The water of boiled nettles brings out the spots on a person with measles coltsfoot and dandelion clean the blood.
There are no traditions connected with any herb or plant explaining why its flower has a certain colour, why its root is shaped as it is, or why it is small.
Nettles are used as food for young turkeys. Herbs were used extensively as a cure in former times. The poor people used them as cures. People were relieved and cures by this means. Written by Henry Fuller, Hall Street, Ballybay. - 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.
- Collector
- Maudie Wiley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corfad, Co. Monaghan