Hemlock is an abundant plant in my district the root is poisonous.
Dandelion leaves boiled were often used as a cough mixture.
Burdock (Crabán) roots are boiled and the juice is bottled. If a glassful is taken for nine successive mornings it is said to ensure person against boils for the coming year.
Dock leaves relieve nettle burns
St. Patrick's leaf applied to a cut prevents poison.
Elder flowers steeped in water are used as a cure for rheumatism.
Garlic seeds boiled are used as a cure for cough and also used for ailments in cattle

Local CuresIt is said that if dandelion leaves are boiled and used as cough mixtures they are a very good cure for Colds.Burdock - Crásán [?] : Roots are boiled and juice bottled. If a glassful is taken for nine successive mornings, it is said to ensure a person against boils for the coming year.Dock : Leaves relief nettle burns.St Patricks leaf if applied to a cut will prevent poison.Elder flowers are steeped in water and used as a cure for Rheumatism.Garlic seeds are used as a cure for a cough and also for ailments in Cattle.

Clover, buacaillin and comfrey grow on good land. Burdock, docken, dandelion and foxglove grow on both good and bad land.
Dandelion means lion's tooth as the leaves of a dandelion are shaped like teeth. If you eat a docken root it is supposed to cure a cough.
Comfrey is used by some people as a food for hens and pigs. It is cut up and boiled and given to them to eat.
Foxglove is sometimes called fairy's finger as the flowers are like fingers. It is supposed to be able to cure cuts.
"Dockens" are harmful because its seeds spread all over the land and covers it with "dockens."
Thistles are harmful because they make the soil poor. Water cress grows in rivers. If a person eats it it will give them an appetite.
A small red berry called a dog berry

MONDAY unlucky day for starting career, going to school & college etc
SUNDAY unlucky day for starting a cure. Considered unlucky for house changing. Unlucky to change from one house, & after-wards return again. Shouldnt according to old tradition, pare your nails on Sunday.
Harmful weeds. Nettles, Dock-leaves buttter-cup burdock, colts foot ragwort (buacallán buidhe) Ox-eye daisy in meadows. Spread rapidly and impoverish the soil. Thistles sign of good land.
Cowslips (deficient in lime)
Herbs grown on rocks (white crusts) used for dying brown. Bottom of bog hole used for dying (black)
TORMENTILLA used for curing toothache
Coltsfoot (Leaves used & dried for smoking when tobacco is scarce.

A weed is a plant that grows out wild in the fields and does not require any cultivation. There is a great deal of harmful weeds such as praiseach, rushes, ferns and a great many others.
Praiseach is a weed that grows in wheat, oats and a great deal of other crops and is about a foot high. It has green leaves and has a yellow flower. When it is growing in a field it spreads its seeds over the fields in the vicinity. People spray the wheat to banish the praiseach or charlock and the spraying does not injure the crop.
There is another weed called burdock and it has a red flower and young people pick it and put it on to the end of a donkey's tail and it would cling to his tail until it would be taken off. Several of the weeds are of great use. The Dandelion is a medicinal plant as well as a feeding plant. The juice of it is used for healing warts. It is a wild form of lettuce and people dig it up and give it to young fowl. Nettles are a cure for rheumatic pains. People say if you eat nettles three times in May you will not require a doctor for the rest of the year.
The thistle is a weed that grows in very dry land and is not eaten by any of the animals only a donkey. The donkey eats the top of the thistle and he also eats the leaves but they do not eat the stem.
The switch grass is a weed that grows in gardens

Long ago to cure boils or ring-worm the people used to pull the roots of a plant called Meacan Thashabha [?] or Meacan Thashabhach. [?] It was an herb very much like a thistle called in English the hellebore or burdock. When it was ripe it was pulled and the roots after being washed and cleaned were put under the ashes to roast. When they were roasted they were applied to the boil as a poultice. The poultice was to be applied quickly without the victim knowing anything about it before hand. This herb grew along river banks.
To cure a stye make the sign of the cross on it with a gold ring three mornings in succession.
The cure for ring-worm was to mix sulphur and lard and apply it as a poultice to the ring-worm and then write the victim's name around the patch of ring-worm.
To cure vomiting drink hot water as hot as possible every morning.
A cure for hic coughs was to eat a raw onion with pepper shaken on it.

Local Cures
St. Patrick's leaf is a cure for wounds, one side of it heals and the other side draws the matter. Rib-grass is a cure for a bleeding wound or burned-paped (?) if applied immediately stops the blood. a cure for a burn is the inner part of the elder boiled in cream to form ointment is a wonderful cure or if it is rubbed with paraffin oil and bread-soda.Burdock is a plant which has a leaf like rhubarb and when the root of it is boiled cures scurvy.I got this information from James Allis, Leacnachreena.

boiled. Then it is bottled and drank.
The buckoo flower or "Lady's Mantle" is a good cure for a bad stomach and also is a good cure for the Yellow Jaundice.
Watercress is a splendid blood purifier. The leaves if bruised, and rub the juice to pimples and sores will cure them.
The Agrimony is an excellent herb for liver trouble. By pouring boiling water on the leaves and letting the water real for a few hours and to drink a wine glassful three times a day. The leaf made into an ointment with lard is an cure for sores.
The chicken weed made into a poultice and applied to sore eyes will cure them.
The Burdock root is used for curing rheumatism. The leaves if bruised and mixed with the white of an egg is a great cure for burns.
Brooklime roots and leaves when mixed with other herbs are good for lung trouble and coughs.

the roots of "the Dandelion". The leaves are very good for the chest and blood. The milk of the dandelion is used for removing warts.The leaves of ivy is used for eye trouble. The burdock in this district is used commonly for taking away the sting of an nettle. Mint is also used in medicine and the alder."Groundsel" juice is used for curing warts. Another cure for the same purpose is, if you come across a snail and rub it across the wart and then put the snail on a thorn and as the snail withers away the wart will also.In the school district there are two cures, one for Erysiples and another for boils. The cure for Erysiples is blessed cream. The person with the cure says a certain prayer over the cream and blesses it. A Cure for stys on the eyes, is to point a gooseberry thorn to the eye affected nine times, and

There are some harmful weeds growing in the district. They are very very good for a poultice
The "Hemlock" is said to be poisonous. The cows are warned against eating it. It grows on an old mossy bank.
There are certain classes of herbs growing on good land and other classes growing on bad land.
The herbs that grow on rich soil are as follows:- agrimony, burdock, cayenne, centaury, yarrow, comfrey, thistle, cranesbill and skullcap.
Agrimony is good for children's weakness of the bladder and also children's ailments.
Cayenne combined with other herbs is used to cure colds,

The most harmful weeds growing on our farm are charlock (which grows chiefly in light sandy soil, thistle nettles, rag weeds. colts foot oxeye or dog-daisies.
They are all harmful because they both spread rapidly and impoverish the soil.
Ragweeds grow only where land is good. Ox eye or dog-daisies only grow where land is bad.
Some herbs are used as medicine and were used long ago as cures.Rheumatism
½ oz each of Burdock.
yarrow

Ingredients:-
Burdock roots
Dockin Roots
Waterdock Roots
WaterMethod:-
Boil all together for 2 hours.
Dose: A glass three times a day.

persons in the locality or within a radius of one mile.
Any person who licks a newt three times cures the burn.
The root of the docken boiled in an amount of water and a half wine glass taken in the morning for a fortnight was used for the cure of rheumatism and the root of the burdock decocted in a similar manner is used also to cure rheumatism.
White Lilly root fried in bacon and applied as a poultice to a sore or bielding ripens the sore and hastens relief.
In olden times and sometimes used presently is the tongue of a fox. It was carefully preserved for the purpose of extracting a thorn. Sometimes when a person got a thorn in his hand or foot and was not easily located the tongue of a fox was tied on at night and it seems that it has some drawing power for nearly on all occasions in the morning the thorn would appear on the surface of the outer skin and could be easily extracted.
Garden sage boiled and some barbadous tar and licorice and rock-candy made into a liquid state was considered a splendid cure for this disease and considered a perfect cure. I

As the figure again raised itself from earth it again spoke saying: "Tell no man of what thou hast seen," and lest he might point out to his companions the imprint of the figure in the stone he was again struck blind to remain so until he should reach home.
The figure then said "I am Saint Conal, and I have now fulfilled my task" and speaking thus it disappeared.
Here the man stood anxiously awaiting the arrival of his companions who did not come. He sat down to rest and fell asleep. He had been talking to St. Conal for a year and a day.
He died, and was buried on the island but before dying he again saw, and thus was formed what to the present day is pointed out and referred to as St. Conal's Bed. Collected by Mary Shovelin, Clogher, Portnoo, Co Donegal.
Told by John McCole, Burdock, Portnoo, Co. Donegal, Aged 45 years.
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sores.
A fox's tongue was a much more prized recipe for the same afflication, as also was the root of the comfrey plant.
A decoction of the cnádán (pronounced crádán) or burdock was also considered beneficial in illness of the respiratory organs.
The dandelion is consideered useful in case of stomach trouble.
In chin-cough or whooping-cough as it is better known nowadays, the cure was to ask a cure of a man riding on a white horse going beneath and around the horse's legs.
For different kinds of rashes a cure resided in the hand of the seventh son of a family.
Billeoga báidhte (water cress) boiled in milk and water is considered in some districts a cure for jaundice.
For sprains nothing can surpass the spraining thread. This is procured from a weaver. If you want one you must not ask for it directly. You

"Herbs"
Many herbs, weeds etc, grow in farms and gardens and there do much damage to the crop
Some of these weeds are dandelion, dock, thistles, nettles, flagons, meadow sweet, buachallans, wild rhubarb, rushes, and blackheads.
Many of these weeds are very harmful to to the crop. They choke the young plats and they draw all the substance from the soil, which is required to feed the farmer's crop Thistles docks and nettles grow on good land and flagons and rushes grow in bad soil.
Nearly all medicines are made from herbs, and in former times, people were relieved and cured from their many diseases, by the use of herbs.
Dandelion is used for warts and purifying the blood, and boiled garlic is used for colds.
Watercress is used for rheumatism and for supplying the necessary amount of iron to the body.
Erysipelas can be cured by a poultice of boiled nettles and boils can be cured by applying burdock or wild rhubarb to them.
Weeds and herbs are in many cases, used for dying purposes. In Donegal, mosses, etc are used for dyeing the famous Donegal tweeds.
Hemlock, wild-fire and cuckoopint are deadly poison to all animals and humans.

either people or cattle. Others had cure of Elf? shooting in cattle. they immersed old copper coins in cans of water saying prayers at the same time and gave the water to the cow to drink.Others had cure of Heart fever in people. This was made by holding a cupfull of Oatmeal? to the patients heart saying prayers at same time. Three cupfulls were then made in three separate cakes and eaten by the patient.
Others had cure of the Rose. God bless us. This was made with pounded burdock leave and fresh butter in three balls. The first one to be applied before sun down.
Another cure when the palate? of the throat was down. This caused extreme
hoarse mess. Signs of the cross were made on the patients head and then an exaustive search was made to get the most central hair on top of the patients head. This hair was pulled out.
Children with chin cough were put three times under and over an ass foal on whom nobody had ever rode. This was to prevent kinking?(spasm)
Another cure was for violient? headaches

HerbsNettles = Taken all the poison of the blood, if cooked like cabbage and taken in the Spring time.Chicken weed = Cure for swellings if mashed together and put on the effected part like a plaster.Garlick = Cure for a cough, when boiled in new milk and taken nine nights in succession.yvy = Cure for lung disease, when put down on the fire, and drew like tea.Dandelion = Cure for stomach trouble, if boiled in new milk.Burdock = Cure for a cut, when the juice of the leave is put into the cut.Mullin plant = Cure for decline, if cooked like cabbage.Cumfrey plant = Cure for broken bones, if root of the cumfrey plant is mashed together and put on the effected part like a plaster.Flaxseed = This seed is boiled for about two hours, then it is mixed with milk and taken for coughs.Primrose leave = This leave is supposed to cure a burn

Old CuresCattle were cured of certain diseases by giving them water from a bound's ditch. The people would not speak a word to anybody when they were going or coming with the water and they would go early in the morning or late at night so they would not meet any person.Agrimony :- To boil it in water and drink the water is a cure for heart disease.
Dandelion :- Is a cure for liver disease and cancer also.
Camomile :- is a cure for biliousness.
Violet leaves :- boiled is a cure for cancer.
Burdock roots :- cures kidney disease.
Nettles :- rubbed well is a cure for rheumatism.
Chicken weed :- is a cure for a tooth ache.
Ash tree :- a small piece of ash tree was put in the fire and the juice out of it was put in the ear for an earache.

13) An Leóna:Préamh an leamhach bhuidhe (Marsh Mallow) do bhrúghadh agus do bhriseadh agus bláthach (seana-bláthach) a chur tríd agus a chur leis an leóna
14) An ( Claidhe ) clamh (Mange, Itch)Préamhacha na gcapóg-sráide bheirithe in im úr, a chimilt de.
15) Borra-Phéist (Ring Worm)Préámhacha an Meacan dá-thogha (Great common Burdock) a bhrúth agus a bheiriú agus ceirín de a chur leis an "borra-phéist."
16) An Charrach (Scabs)Gáirleóg a bhriseadh suas fuar agus a chimilt don charraig.
17) Canncar, Aillse ( Cancer)An luibh darbh ainm Columbín (Columbine) a briseadh suas agus a chur leis.
18) An Líonadh (Dropsy)Arán coirce agus biollar a mheascadh le chéíle agus iad d'ithe agus tobac a chogaint agus a chaitheamh i bpíopa.