School: Rathkenny (roll number 15483)
- Location:
- Rathkenny, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Tomás Mac Cárthaigh
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- XML “Local Cures - A Cure for Mumps”
- XML “Local Cures - Cure for Mumps”
- XML “Local Cures - A Cure for Whooping-Cough”
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- Collector
- Thomas Carty
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 86
- Address
- Mullagha, Co. Meath
- (2) Another cure is to put a donkeys' blinkers (winkers locally) on the patient and lead him into and out of a piggery three times, each time repeating the words - "Huckery, muckery, huckery, muck."
- (1) Get a piece of bread for the patient from the house of a married couple of the same name before marriage.