School: Ballyvaldon (roll number 10792)
- Location:
- Ballyvaldon, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0885, Page 244
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- Where Mrs Davis Blackwater now lives once lived a woman named Mrs Breen
This woman put her cows in the field adjoining Killila graveyard in the Summer nights. Notwith standing the plenty of grass which they had they gave no milk in the morn.One night she was crossing the field very late. She saw a little fairy woman sitting on a golden stool milking the cows into a golden can. When she had finished milking she went down to the bottom of the field + entered a little cave. Mrs Breen followed her + looked in. She saw the little woman churning the milk in a golden churn
In the morning the cows were all dead
