School: Clochar na Trócaire, Baile an Gharrdha

Location:
Ballingarry, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Sr M. Treasa
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  2. A gauy cow used to give milk to everyone during the famine times. If they kept milking her for ever she would still have milk. One day a woman was milking her when a little witch came into the yard and said "I bet you I can milk that cow dry." The other woman said that she would not. The little witch took a sieve and milked the cow dry. When the cow was milked she disappeared and was never seen again.
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