School: Killyfargy

Location:
Killyfargy, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
B. Ó Mórdha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0947, Page 022

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0947, Page 022

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  3. XML “A Country Dance”
  4. XML “Another Version of the Toothache Cure”
  5. XML “Cure of the Rickets”

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  1. (continued from previous page)
    though on a lesser scale, was continued down to the recent Dance Hall licensing act (1935) and is still surreptitiously practised at parties. The polka referred to above was introduced over sixty years ago in this district. Of Irish dances, step-dancing, the four-hand reel (the favourite), the round reel (or hooking reel), jigs, and eight -hand reel survived down to Gaelic Leage days.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. As Peter sat on a tombstone,
    Jesus came to him all alone,
    'Peter, Peter why do you weep?'
    'O! Lord I have the toothache'.
    Any one who says this prayer three times by day and three times by night never shall have the toothache"
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  3. The seventh generation of blacksmiths has the cure of the rickets. My father who is the seventh generation of blacksmiths has the cure. He cures in the following way. He gets water from a stream that runs south. He says
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. rickets (~12)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Éamon Boylan
    Gender
    Male