School: Gort na Mara (Seafield) (roll number 11565)
- Location:
- Donaghintraine, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bean Uí Ghathaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0168, Page 164
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Gort na Mara (Seafield)
- XML Page 164
- XML “Story”
- XML “A Strange Animal”
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
- (continued from previous page)[-]
- Years ago a man that lived in Dunmoran went out one morning and he saw a lovely yellow cow in his field. He went in to his wife and told her, and they both decided that they would [keep] her there until someone would come and claim her.
The cow was there all day and she was losing the milk and the man said it was a sin to leave her like that, so he told his wife to milk her. She did and(continues on next page) - Collector
- Brigid Tiernan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Matthew Killawee
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballygilcash, Co. Sligo
