School: Kilrush (roll number 14039)
- Location:
- Ballynaberney, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: C. E. Kidd
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0895, Page 247
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- (continued from previous page)247person whose blood was out of order, They are supposed to be good for rheumatism too. The juice of a dock leaf rubbed on a nettle sting eases the pain. Our teacher remembers a plant called "Rabbit Grass, being used as a cure for children with worms.Robert Masterson.
Tomanoole,
Ballycarney,
Ferns.
Inform. recd. from Henry Masterson (See front page)
- The most harmful weeds on our farm are Fairy Flax and wild Marigold. Both spread rapidly and do much harm to the soil, and they grow in every kind of land.
Rag weed and Thistle only grow on good land : they choke the young corn. Marsh Mallow is cut and boiled in water. The water is drained off and put on sores of any animal.
House Leek has a cure but I do not know what it is.
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Nettles are boiled like cabbage and eaten by people who have boils or impure blood.(continues on next page)
