School: St Boden's, Culdaff
- Location:
- Culdaff, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Doiminic Ó Duibhne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1123, Page 176
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- (continued from previous page)left down her pot and the man said "never 'teem' your potatoes there again" and the woman asked "why?" and the man said "because it annoys us," and he disappeared. When the man who owned the house was going to his work the next day he saw a black cow grazing in his garden he chased her twice and still she came back, he put her in his byre and every night and morning he milked her and she milked well, and every year she had a calf and it was like herself. This man became very rich and one day he thought he would sell the cow, so he took her to the fair and the man he sold her to was giving him the money for her, when she disappeared with all her calves and the man went home as poor as before.
- Collector
- Philomena Deeny
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Greene
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Culdaff, Co. Donegal
