School: Kenagh, Longford (roll number 15154)
- Location:
- Keenagh, Co. Longford
- Teacher: T. Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0751, Page 066
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- There once lived a man in a place called Kilcrow about a half mile from Lanesboro who kept a lot of cows and fed them on good land. Still he could never half as much better as his neighbours had. But one May morning as he was driving up his cows to pasture, he noticed the cows tripping and kicking so he made an examination of the ground around. To his great surprise he found some spool threads tied from one traínín to another. He gathered them up and brought them home, and of course like every farmer his place to thrown them was on the loft in the kitchen. After some weeks he had an occasion to look for something on the loft was weighing down with butter. Then he remember the treads and began to realise that someone was taking his butter.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Vera Killian
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 11
- Informant
- Mr Killian
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
