School: Cnapach (Crappagh) (roll number 7529)
- Location:
- Crappagh, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Mrs Horan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0949, Page 348
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- There is a tooth-ache tree beside Trinity Catholic Church about 2 1/2 or 3 miles from here. It is said that a person will be cured of tooth-ache if he finds a horse-shoe nail & drives it into the tree. It is an old white-thorn and it is full of nails.A story is told of an old woman named Mrs McDermott of Cordoo, Newbliss. (She died about 3 years ago and was over 70 years). She was crazy with tooth ache, once & so bad was the pain that she ran to the local forge and asked the blacksmith for a handful of horse-shoe nails. She at once proceeded to the three & drove them all in thinking she'd be cured. But she wasn't. She didn't do it right, for a person is supposed to find the nail.Mrs McPhillips of Kilnaharvey can make a St Brigid's Cross with rushes, straw and two sally rods. There is supposed to be a cure in the clay of Father Brian Duffy's grave in Aghabog Church yard. He was a very saintly old priest and he died about fifty years ago. He was very old.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Mc Goldrick
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockcor, Co. Monaghan
- Collector
- Peter Mc Gorman
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumary, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Mrs O' Rourke
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 62
- Address
- Drumary, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Pat Smyth
- Gender
- Unknown
- Age
- c. 40
- Address
- Corduff, Co. Monaghan
