School: Aonach Urmhumhan, Clochar na Trócaire
- Location:
- Nenagh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An tSr. Celestine
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0534, Page 361
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Local Herbs (continued)
“The dock-leaf is a plant which spreads very quickly in a crop especially in oats or wheat.”
(continued from previous page)said to be poison.
There are other plants which do no harm. The following are bloodwood which is said to have grown at the foot of the cross when Our Lord was dying. The red spot on it is supposed to be a drop of the Sacred Blood which fell on it.
Some people boil ferns and the juice of them is used as a cure for stomach trouble. Bog ashpodel is a plant which is used for a sore throat and if eaten by sheep it is said to give them a stiffness in their bones.
Wood - sorrel which is something like shamrock is thought by some people to be the true shamrock used by St. Patrick(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Breeda Fennessy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Gortnaskehy, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr P. Fennessy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Gortnaskehy, Co. Tipperary