School: Díseart, Droichead Átha (roll number 1434)
- Location:
- Dysart, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Ní Ailpín
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- (continued from previous page)Dandelion is a cure for kidney trouble
The milk of dandelion is used for warts.
Fairy potaoes are found here. There is a little round potato & a long stem on it, and it is very far down in the ground and there comes a white seed on it and we eat the root.
- Groundsel is found in good land. Flaggers & blind nettles are found on bad land.
Nightshade is rank poison and horses often eat it.
There is a weed with a coarse leaf and people give it to pigs. I do not know the name.
Groundsel is given to finches to eat. - Collector
- Brendan Molloy
- Gender
- Male
- Ground-ivy was applied to sores and blisters long ago, but it is no longer tried as a cure by people locally. The thistle is the National emblem of Scotland. The larger kind is an unfailing remedy for whooping cough when boiled in Cow's milk.
