School: Gowran (C.)
- Location:
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Chuinn
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- Herbs were used very extensively in olden days for baslms. The herbs usually thrive in bogs & others grow through walls. Marshmallow cures sprains. Thyme, sage & mint chopped & mixed up through luke warm water & give one teaspoonful of it through milk to a sick person every day.
- Collector
- Mary Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mrs Burke
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 69
- Address
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny