School: Gowran (C.)
- Location:
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Chuinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0860, Page 166
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- (continued from previous page)always a great flow of milk.
One day the Blessed Virgin was going along the road & she got very tired & sat down to rest beside a well. Bending over it she dropped her ring. There was a frog in the well & it brought the ring to the Blessed Virgin, & she said, "Good frog you shall teach all men to swim" & it is said a frog was the first to teach a human being to swim,
- Collector
- Brigid Jordan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clover, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- John Jordan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
