School: Killyon (roll number 7120)

Location:
Killyon, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Brighid, Bean Uí Fithceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0692, Page 346

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0692, Page 346

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    About a hundred years ago there lived down beside Clondalee Bog a farmer names John Hevey.

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    was the bride near ready. As soon as he said this the farmer came down out of the room leading the Kerry cow and she all dressed up in silks and satins and a veil on her head just like a bride.
    The lads put Ned up on her back and gave him a few whacks of a stick and drove him away.
    No one knows where they went but neither Ned nor the cow was ever heard of again. Whenever the people in the locality hear of anybody being too covetous they say he wont stop till he gets what Ned Muldoon got when he went to look for the wife.
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    Once upon a time there lived an old innocent man in the locality.

    Written by Barney Keegan,
    Clondalee Beg,
    Hill-of-Down.
    Told by Thomas Kearney,
    Clondalee,
    Hill-of-Down,
    Co. Meath.
    Once upon a time there lived
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Folktales index
    AT1525: The Master Thief
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Barney Keegan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Clondalee Beg, Co. Meath
    Informant
    Thomas Kearney
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Clondalee More, Co. Meath