School: Glaisín (C.), Corcaigh (roll number 14912)
- Location:
- Ballinaspig Beg, Co. Cork
- Teacher: H. Considine
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0390, Page 007
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Glaisín (C.), Corcaigh
- XML Page 007
- XML “Sage”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- "She that would live for aye
Must eat sage in May."Sage is an herb and it grows wild. I often heard my mother say that it is a great cure for many ailments. Sage contains salviol oil and it helps to preserve the flesh of animals. It has a very bitter taste but it aids digestion.Sage tea is a powerful stimulant and a tonic. Young sage leaves washed well, chopped finely and eaten between bread and butter is a good digestive.A man that knows all about herbs says, "We should be very careful when we take sage because it promotes perspiration, and if we take too much of it we are in danger of getting a bad cold." It also rids the body of poison.It is a great cure for a sore throat.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joan Forde
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Croghtamore Square, Co. Cork
