School: Beann-chorr (roll number 13808)
- Location:
- Banagher, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Hairt
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0141, Page 217
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- There was a women named Loughney and a man named Maugham living in Kilcummin. They had a cow. The milk the cow produced each time was a mystery. Each day when let out to graze she went direct to a stone on the beach and continually kept licking the stone which Saint Cummin was in. It was a carved stone with a lid on it and taking off the lid they found the saint inside, a small child. They brought the child and reared him. I cannot give the number of years, but when he was a strong boy an unknown woman, supposed to be his mother, came to where he was reared and was there for some time, and disappeared later on. But I am unable to give the date of his death. He was(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Simon Lynn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballygarry, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Pat Lynn
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Ballygarry, Co. Mayo
