School: Cootehill (B)
- Location:
- Cootehill, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: W. Healy
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- A child in this town (Cootehill) was suffering from rickets. Doctors or no other person could cure it.
It's parents took it to a blacksmith who lived beside the town of Clones. His name was Boylan
He got the cure handed down to him from seven generations of his family.
He put the child on an anvil and covered it with a damp cloth and then tipped it on the back with a sledge three times saying some words while doing so. The parents took the child back to him three times. At the end of this time the child was cured.
