School: Bilboa (C.) (roll number 15693)
- Location:
- Bilboa, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Síle, Bean Uí Raghallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0519, Page 115
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- (continued from previous page)The juice of the inner leaves of the dock-leaf plant is used as a cure for nettle stings. It is applied to the blisters and kills the pain.
Groundsel, which is very plentiful in this locality, is given as food to canaries and gold finches.
Laurel-leaf is used as a cure for sore eyes in cows. The leaves are applied direct and kept against the eye with a bandage.
Ivy leaves are used to clean navy and black clothes. The leaves are boiled and the liquid strained off. It is then left for a day and turns black. The clothes are brushed with a clothes brush dipped in this black liquid.
Dandelion leaves are boiled in water. The liquid is strained off and boiled again with sugar. This is called Dandelion Wine and is used for interal diseases.
Fern roots are a cure for kidney disease in horses. The roots are boiled and the fern water given to the horse. Children like to eat the leaves of cuckoo-sadle which is a very sour plant. They eat water-cress and wood sorrel.Mary Smee
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