School: Lisín na hEilte (Cailíní)
- Location:
- Lisheennaheltia, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Cáit Ní Choisdealbha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0017, Page 073
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- There was a family once. They were very poor. They had only one cow and she died. The father was one day crossing a field where there was a forth. A man came out of the fort. The man who lost the cow started to talk to him and told him about how his cow died. The fairy man asked him would he like to see his cow, he said "yes," he would. The fairy man pulled a blade of grass made a round ring of it, and told him to look through it. The man saw his own cow grazing. The fairy man told him to go and catch the cows tail and keep a good hold of it. The cow brought him to places he knew not until he arrived home himself and his cow. There was a great joy in the family
- Collector
- Eileen Finnegan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Donelon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 69
