School: Eanach Mór (C.) (roll number 12427)
- Location:
- Annaghmore, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Caitlín, Bean Uí Mhiadhaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0187, Page 234
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“A long time ago, there was a man and his wife living together in a house.”
(continued from previous page)be displeased. However, the man started a churning, and he was mixing the porridge with one hand and churning with the other hand.
The child was crying with the hunger but he did not mind that. The cow was going out of the field from him. When he saw the cow going away he got up and went out. He tied a rope around the cow's horns and he brought the rope down through the chimney and tied it around himself.
The cow jumped up on the house and in doing so the roof of the house was bored through by her hoofs. She pulled the man up the chimney and the pot of porridge upset and the child was burnt. He himself could not come down out of the chimney as he was held above.
At dinner time the woman came home for her dinner. When she saw the cow on top of the house she shouted to her husband. When he was not coming out she went in. The child was roaring crying(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs M. Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 61
- Address
- Kilfree, Co. Sligo