School: Ráth Bhán (roll number 15996)
- Location:
- Rathbaun, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Ss Ó Donnchadha
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0149, Page 004
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
Download
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Ráth Bhán
- XML Page 004
- XML (no title)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
(no title)
“Long ago there lived a well-to-do farmer.”
I GOT THE FOLLOWING STORY FROM:-
MR MICHAEL HARTE, DERRYFADDA.Long ago there lived a well-to-do farmer. He had a large stock of milk cows. Every morning he milked a large quantity of milk from his cows.One morning he found out his cows had no milk. He was greatly surprised at this. For a week he kept milking his cows but it was no use; for they had very little milk.The farmer resolved to find out what the matter was with the cows. One morning he arose at day-break and he, with his dog and three men with their dogs, went to the field where the cattle were grazing.On arrival in the field they delayed for some time. At length they saw(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nora Walshe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mr Michael Harte
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Mayo