School: Naomh Aicnidh (roll number 1573)
- Location:
- Buncrana, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Ristéard Ó hAoláin
![The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1112, Page 029](https://doras.gaois.ie/cbes/CBES_1112%2FCBES_1112_029.jpg?width=1600&quality=85)
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1112, Page 029
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Naomh Aicnidh
- XML Page 029
- XML “The Swine Black Fever”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- About 118 years ago there started in Derry a fever known as the Swine Black Fever. It came to this district in July. With the heat of the dull warm weather it spread thickly. Medical aid was hard to find. The only means of stopping the disease was scattering lime. At that time the people kept their houses filthy that it was impossible to prevent a fever. They kept their swine and their cattle in their dwelling house. This disease came in old clothes bought in pawn shops in Derry. The doctors did not know how to cure it. All they knew was that it came from the swine. That is how it got the name of the swine black fever.
- Collector
- Willie Diver
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carvagh, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mick Diver
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Hill Side, Co. Donegal