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School: Ráth Chormaic (B.) (roll number 1598)

Location:
Rathcormack, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Tomás de Barra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0381, Page 394

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  1. Common Herbs of the Locality

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    (1) Nettles (2) Cornkale (3) Preasac Buidhe (4) Thistles (5) Dock weed (6) Colt's Foot (7) Dandelion (8) Chicken Weed (9) Scutch grass (10) Ferns (11) Buacailláin (12) Groundsel (13) Rag Weed (14) Charlock (15) Yarrow
    The Thistle, Nettles, Rag weed, and Scutch grass spread rapidly.
    Nettles, Dock weed, Cornkale, Rag weed, and Scutch grass impoverish the soil.
    Thistles grow in good land only.
    Rushes, Ferns, nettles, Buacailláin, and Preasach buidhe grow in bad land only.
    Nettles, Dandelion, Yarrow, and Chicken weed have medicinal properties.
    Three meals of nettles are eaten during the Month of May to prevent rash and other skin diseases.
    Cornkale grows in tilled land only.
    Sheep eat Buachailláin and donkeys eat thistles.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English