School: Na Hárda (Ardfield), Clanna Caoilte (roll number 1267)
- Location:
- Ardfield, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Caitlín, Bean Uí Ghrífín
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- Cos Dubh an herb found growing chiefly in stony fences. It is much like the male fern but being a much smaller plant. It was used in the days of our grandfathers to foretell the result of a certain disease known as a blast. It should be pulled by someone other than the inmates of the house. It should then be boiled in the house of the patient without the patient seeing it. If the patient was going to die the water would blacken. If he was going to recover the water would turn green.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Driscoll
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dunowen, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Denis Feen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dunowen, Co. Cork