School: Baile Aodha (B.), Inis (roll number 13418)
- Location:
- Ballyea, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Mathúna
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- An old tramp called into a little cottage of a very old widow. The traveller was a bent old aged man and he looked very sorrowful. He looked hungry and tired. The woman got some food for him immediately. He was very thirst. She gave him a cup of sweet milk. When he had drunk it he asked for more. "I am sorry to have to refuse your request" said the old woman. "The king of breffny is building himself a new castle and he his putting the blood of the cattle through the walls of the castle so that it would be everlasting." "My little cow was the last little cow to be driven up to the castle. You have got the last drop of milk in Breffny. The tramp thanked her very much and disappeared. Next morning the little widow looked sorrowfully on the side of the little hill because she had no little cow to see there. Suddenly a door opened(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sylvie Barrett
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Tom Meere
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 66
- Address
- Kilmoraun, Co. Clare
