School: The Rower (B.), Inistioge (roll number 15160)
- Location:
- The Rower, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Risteárd Ó Cuirrín
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- Collector
- Thomas Lyng
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs J. Lyng
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 49
- Address
- Carranroe Upper, Co. Kilkenny
- Some herbs are very harmful to the land. The preasach, and the thistle are most harmful. The chicken-leaf is often used for medicine, and the dog-leaf is used to cure a sting of a nettle. Nettles are used raw for young turkeys to keep them strong. The penny-leaf was used for dyeing(continues on next page)