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School: Coill Beithne (C.), Baile Mhistéala (roll number 11266)

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0514, Page 262

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  3. XML “Wakes”
  4. XML “Plants”

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  1. Wakes

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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. death (~1,076)
      2. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
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  2. Plants

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    Comfrey having a blue flower and like a dark leaf was used for curing broken horns in cattle.
    A buachallán was said to cure a cut in a sheep or cow.
    St. Patrick's cabbage was good for curing burns and scalds. Dry murn was cured by a plant that grew against walls. Flies were caught and used for fishing in bright clean water
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