School: Kilmore (roll number 13010)
- Location:
- Kilmore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Eilís, Bean Uí Cheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0204, Page 303
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- (continued from previous page)turn back when a clock put up his head and said yesterday, "it was yesterday he passed this way" So ever since if you kill a clock your sins are forgiven for that day.
- In the famine days a cow fed in a town-land near Glenade. This cow was a very good cow. Any vessel which would be put under her she would fill it. This cow fed the people of the whole town-land and this (never) townland never suffered from hunger. A woman from another town-land was jealous about the cow. She got a bottomless can and milked the cow and milked away all the cow's blood. The cow went out on the Glen Gap and fell dead.
- Collector
- Tessie Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killadiskert, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Killadiskert, Co. Leitrim
- Once Saint Patrick was staying with a woman someplace around Glangevlin. When he was going to bed he told the woman to stay up and wait for the cock to crow and call him(continues on next page)
