School: Tuar Árd, Áth Treasna (roll number 8893)
- Location:
- Toorard, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Éamonn Ó Domhnaill
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- Some herbs are also used as cures for animals as well as people, those are, chicken weed, bisim, roots of briars and roots of the sally-tree. Chicken weed is a cure and preventative against a disease called "pip", which chickens get when then are very young, it is chopped and given to chickens, when mixed with Indian meal. When bisim is chopped and given to horse to eat, it is a cure for a horse having worms. The roots of the sally-tree when boiled and then given to a cow is a cure for red water (murrain). The roots of briars when boiled and the juice given to a calf is a cure for a disease called "scour."
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- Collector
- John Foley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Glanycummane Upper, Co. Cork
- Informant
- William O' Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockilly, Co. Cork