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School: Cill Cruim / Killocrim (roll number 17072)

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Killacrim, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Micheál Óg Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0407D, Page 13_002

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    to a broken-winded horse to eat. Nettles are cut up small and boiled and given to fowl with meal. Speedwell is drawn like tea and given to the person with the yellow jaundice to drink. Yellow-root is used for poisoning salmon by leaving it in lime for a day. This is the way it is used. Put it into the pool where the salmon are and it will poison them. The thistle is used for feeding pigs. Cut it up and steam it in meal. Chicken-weed and comfry are used for feeding cows.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    M. Bairéad
    Gender
    Unknown
    Informant
    Mrs T. Barrett
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Killacrim, Co. Kerry