School: Mainistir Phádraig Naofa (roll number 1016)
- Location:
- Market Street, Co. Galway
- Teacher: An Br Anselm
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0084, Page 182
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- (continued from previous page)field and he said "I wish the cow was beside me." This man always wore a red shirt so he tore a bit of his shirt and his sweat had turned into wax so he got a piece of wax and tied it with the red shirt on to the cows tail. When the little men saw this they vanished and all that was left was a stream of blood. After that the man believed in putting the red cloth and the wax candle on his cows' tails when they would have a calf.
- Collector
- Willie Conneely
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Market Street, Co. Galway
