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Seán Sexton

Posted on Monday, July 31, 2000 - 05:28 pm:

Need translation of "tree of health" (not "healthy tree"); also interested in any Irish lore on healing properties of trees.

Máire Ní Ógáin

Posted on Tuesday, August 01, 2000 - 05:26 am:

Crann na sláinte - don't worry, that's tree of health all right!

Laigheanach

Posted on Tuesday, August 01, 2000 - 02:16 pm:

In irish Brehon Law, a person could end up as far as being put to death for cutting down an oak tree without good reason.Oak trees were particularly sacred in the celtic-pagan and also celtic-christian tradition.The sessile oak is the irish national tree.

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