1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Corracharra

School: Corracharra (roll number 16407)

Location:
Corracharra, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
Brian Mac Aodha
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0940, Page 036

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0940, Page 036

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Corracharra
  2. XML Page 036
  3. XML “Cures”

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

  1. Cures (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    "Our Father was riding on a horse. Our Father's horse's foot slipped. Our Father alights for his horse to his horse's feet right up again. Bone to bone, joint to joint, leaf to leaf, everything up alright again in its own place. I touch it, and the "Lord heal it".
    Mumps
    This is the only local cure in which then former language of the people asserted it-self.
    Place an ass's halter round the neck of the child who has got the mumps, and lead him in, and out of the pig stye three times saying each time
    "Lecre, lecne, seo tugat no mucna, mucna, mucno, seo tugat no lecne."
    Curing Wells
    Beside the Village of Ballytrain here is a well called still Tobar legista to it was by the water of this well that the old friar in Ballytrain Father Martin wrought
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Coyle
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Corhelshinagh, Co. Monaghan