School: Culdaff
- Location:
- Culdaff, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Ailís Eibhlín de Brún
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1123, Page 037
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Story 23
“Once upon a time there was a man named Lynch. He lived in Buncrana, and he had the gift for curing broken legs.”
Once upon a time there was a man named Lynch. He lived in Buncrana, and he had the gift for curing broken legs. One day, a girl who was going to be married, was walking out with her man, and when she was jumping over a ditch, her foot slipped on a stone, and she broke her leg. Her father took her to a doctor, but he could not do anything. After five years he sent her to a London specialist, but he could not do anything either. One woman told her about Lynch being good at curing bones, and she asked her father to let her go to him, but he would not let her. But her man asked Lynch to come to see her some day when her father was out. Lynch said that she had not got a broken leg, but a broken bone in her hip. He cured her(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mr Mc Keague
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 45
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Culdaff, Co. Donegal