School: Maoilinn (C.), Áth Treasna
- Location:
- Meelin, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Cheallacháin
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- (continued from previous page)very poor.
Thistles are other herbs that grow where the land is very producive, and on useless land the chicken-weed and other poisonous herbs herbs grow.
Some of these plants are eaten by people such as :- nettles and wood-sorrel. There is only one account of a woman who used cure people with an herb. Whenever a sick person was brought to the woman she used go out and pick an herb out of a field and cure the person. In payment for the cure she used to get a gallon of porter.
These remedies were used when people did not know much about doctors, and had to depend entirely on their own local cures.
- Collector
- Katty Mc Auliffe
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr D. Mc Auliffe
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Meelin, Co. Cork
