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School: Tulach Chromán (roll number 1256)

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Tullycroman, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
Mrs. Brennan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0955, Page 072

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    Herbs
    The dock is harmful because it spreads greatly and is very hard to destroy.
    Herbs grow in either good or bad land.Nettles and water-cress grow on bad marshy land.
    Cumphy grows in good land.The nettle and the thistle have medicinal properties.Boiled nettles are used for purifying the blood.Dock plants,nettles and water-cress,rose-noble and horse radish are used as food.Briar-roots dyes brown,heather dyes a heather colour,monks-hood is used for poison-also Blue -rockets.
    In olden days people always used herbs as cures for various diseases.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eileen Dinkin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Drumreask, Co. Monaghan
    Informant
    Mr Pat Dinkin
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    53
    Address
    Drumreask, Co. Monaghan