School: Clochar na Trócaire, Baile an Gharrdha
- Location:
- Ballingarry, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Sr M. Treasa
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0500, Page 299
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: Clochar na Trócaire, Baile an Gharrdha
- XML Page 299
- XML “Strange Animals”
- XML “Strange Animals - An Glas Geimhneach”
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)the hare disappeared. The hunters were surprised. They looked in the window and saw a witch bleeding.
- 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.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen Danagher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballynarooga Beg West, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Mrs Fitzgearld
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Ballynarooga Beg West, Co. Limerick
