School: Sraithíní (roll number 17145)
- Location:
- Sraheens, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: M. Ní Dhuinnshleibhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0121B, Page 09_004
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- (continued from previous page)herb with seven cures so called because it has seven stripes and is supposed to be able to cure seven diseases it stops bleeding, it prevents blood poising one side will make a person bleed and the other will stop bleed.
Dandelions
The water in which dandelions are boiled is a cure for heart disease. Dandelions is dried in the sun and then eaten.
- We set potatoes every year.
My father ploughs the land and makes it into ridges. My father sticks them with a spade or steveen. If he is seting with a steveen I do the goggering that is I through the slits into(continues on next page) - Collector
- Michael Clisham
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrowntleva, Co. Mayo
