School: Lackamore, Tulach Sheasta (roll number 2428)
- Location:
- Lackamore, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire, Bean an Diolúnaigh
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- (continued from previous page)Watercress used raw with salt is good for the stomach.
Brooklime taken with salt same as watercress is good for a bad stomach. Ribbed grass for sore lips.
Gilcock boiled, strained and drank for kidney trouble.
Buachallans spread rapidly and impoverish the ground and so harms crops.
Prussack wee is most destructive to oats. It would overtop the oats if not checked.
Robin-run-the-hedge spreads in a tangled mass in the gardens; it is harmful to crops.
House leek - people believe it would keep a house from going on fire. They have a clump of it growing on the thatched roof generally over a door.
Groundsel boiled in milk was to be given to delicate people.
Wood Sorrel eaten by children at children's party out in the fields.
Cuckoo Sorrel - plant with clover shaped leaf wearing white blossom called cuckoo because it blossoms with the coming of the cduckoo. It was eaten by children.
Comfrey - Weed grows like a little head of cabbage soft leaves while at back applied to sprains
- Collector
- Nellie Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lackamore, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr Andrew Mackey
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 61
- Address
- Lackamore, Co. Tipperary
