School: Drom Bhaoghalláin (roll number 7981)
- Location:
- Ardcarn, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: M. Pagnam
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Story
The fairy cow
There are many forts in this part of the country. There is a fort near this place where music and dancing is heard. Once there lived a man near this fort whose cattle were grazing near the fort. Every morning and night his cows were milked by the fairies so one day he turned a cow into the fort and said to the fairies Let ye milk and feed this cow so the cow was milked and fed by the fairies.
Some time after this the man got very poor and the landlord came to seize his cattle. He said to the fairies I gave up ye cow and now you will not help me. At that moment a crowd of fairies came and (be) beat back the cattle to the man's land again. The landlord never came to take the cattle again and when the cow grew old and died she was buried by the fairies.
Evelyn Beirne
Teller of story
John Crowley
Carrigeen
- Collector
- Evelyn Beirne
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Crowley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrigeen, Co. Roscommon
