School: Corvoy
- Location:
- Corvoy, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Dubhthaigh
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- XML “Local Cures”
- XML “A Cure for a Bleeding Finger”
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- The cure which is most commonly known in this district is the cure for the mumps. When a child take's sick with the mumps a second cousin gets a donkey's halter and puts it on the child. Then the child is led into the pig house and the person that is leading the child says "hush na múca cure the mumps." When this was done the mumps were cured.
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- Collector
- Francis O Neill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corraviller, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Frank O' Neill
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corraviller, Co. Monaghan