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School: Tulchán (roll number 10097)

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An Tulachán, Co. Liatroma
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Seosamh Mac Guidhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0190, Page 170

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    There are a great many herbs got around this district. Chicken weed is a cure for a swelling. The people roast the chicken weed and put it on the swelling. Shrio Crann is used for a burn. Comfree is used for a cut. The cut is washed with the water that the leaves are boiled in. Bog bine is good for a bad stomach. It grows in the bog. the people boil it and put new milk on it. Blind Mans buff is used for a cut. It is put up to the cut and it stops the blood. Nettles boil are good for the measles. to drink the juice of the nettle. Bark of the woodbine cures the jaundice. Rose noble is used for a sprain pound it up and make a tight bandage round the sprain. Garlic is used for a cough. There are three ways: put it under your foot. Eat it raw or put it on as a rub. Slaunless leaf is
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