School: Mell, Mell N. School, Drogheda (roll number 855)
- Location:
- Mell, Co. Louth
- Teacher: E. Ní Cholmáin
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“A poor man was out the country...”
A poor man was out the country one day and asked a drink of milk in a farmer's house and they refused him even though they had plenty of it. He went to a poor woman's house then and she gave him the little drop she had. When the poor woman woke the next morning she saw a grey cow at the door. She milked her and got a big bucket of milk and the cow went away. She milked the cow every day till she had plenty butter and milk and soon had more than the big farmer's wife where cows lost their milk and they became poor.
- Collector
- Eibhlís Ní Cholmáin
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Mell, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Mr Joe Meade
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 43
- Address
- Mell, Co. Louth