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School: Drumgossatt (C.)

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Drumgoosat, Co. Monaghan
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Áine Nic Ghráinne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0930, Page 131

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    Herbs
    The most harmful weeds on the farm are rag weed, chicken weed, scutch grass and thistles and pressure.
    In the good land the herbs for cures grow, comfery, nettles, marsh -mallow, bog-bean, dandelion, dalks, golden-bean. The comfery and marsh-mallows are used for a blast or swelling. Nettles are used for blisters and heart. Dalks are used when a horse has a cough. Golden-bean is for the kidneys and bog-bean for rheumatism.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Rose Corbally
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Stranatona, Co. Monaghan
    Informant
    Mary Corbally
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    70
    Address
    Stranatona, Co. Monaghan