School: Céad na Mínseach (roll number 5498)
- Location:
- Céide na Minseach, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Teacher: M. Nic Aodha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0932, Page 218
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- (continued from previous page)The rag-weed is sometimes called "The Buachailling Buidhe" because it is yellow.
- The Coochelen Cwee; along with being injurious to crops, has been found to contain poison, both in fresh and withered condition, and has been know to have poisoned cattle.The Mullain Plant grows to a height of three or four feet and has a pale yellow blossom. Its leaves, soft and coarse with a thick midrib, grow smaller as the reach the top of the plant. In Autumn, the leaves are picked and dried. They are washed, dried and put in a saucepan with boiling water "to draw". Being very bitter, they are sweetened, and are recommended as a powerful remedy for "a bad cold," particularly when settled on the lungs.The garlic both garden and wild are used for colds are particularly for lung trouble.The Rue is bruised and pressed, mixed with Garlic and used to inoculate cattle against the disease of "blackleg."The Comfrey has a very large coarse oval leaf. It is used for feeding pigs.
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