School: Cluain Meacan (roll number 11451)
- Location:
- Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Liam Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0406, Page 181
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“A long time ago there lived an old woman not far from this place.”
(continued from previous page)mouth and then he went in and told the old woman. She got a spancel and she put it in on the potrack and she got a stool and a bucket and sat down on it and she started saying "Graween cully, Graween cully" and the bucket was full of milk after a piece. She put the milk into a pot and boiled it. When it was boiled it was all cowdung that was in it, and she could carry no more milk from that man for the rest of the year. She told the little boy she would give him a piece of stampy and milk, but instead she gave him a beating.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peg Barry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derry, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Tom Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Meen, Co. Kerry