School: Dungimmon
- Location:
- Dungummin Lower, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mrs Flynn
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- (continued from previous page)would go to milk, he would see a hare sucking the milk out of the cow's tits.
He told his neighbours about this, and they told him to shoot it, with a crooked sixpence.
He did this next morning, and went to his neighbour's house, and found the woman lying on the floor bleeding.
When a person is starting to milk, he blesses himself; when he is finished he dips his thumb in the milk, and makes the sign of the cross on the cow's udder.
The Valley of the Black Pig, runs through Flood's Hollow.
- Collector
- Meg Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dungummin Lower, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Thomas Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Dungummin Lower, Co. Cavan
