School: Cill Mhuire (C.), Oileán Ciarraí (roll number 10395)
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Máiréad Pléimeann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0449, Page 158
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- Long long ago a cow went around to all the poor people. She would fill a bucket of milk morning and evening. Her colours were black and white. She was not an ordinary cow. She had long brown and white horns, and was very fat and big.
She usually fed by the mountain near a stream which flows from the top of the mountain, and drank from a pure spring well. Lyre well,
A women once bet another that she would give her a vessel which the cow would not fill
The woman fetched a sand screen and put it under the cow, and began to milk her into this vessel for hours, The cow died before the woman had finished milking her,
- Collector
- Nora Hickey
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Knockatee, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Dan Murphy
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 73
