School: Clonmacnoise
- Location:
- Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: P. Ó Maolmhuaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0811, Page 147
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- (continued from previous page)and near by everyone for she was indeed very famous for supplying milk. When at length the new reached “Coosan” a place beyond Athlone about this cow the people became envyous and in their spitefulness they made up a horrid plan to steal the cow. So early one morning two men came to Ciaran’s pasture and stole the cow. Then they beat here with a stick to make her run for fear they would be caught, but in their hurry they cow fell on a flag and her two knees sunk into it leaving in it the impression of two circular shaped holes. However when the cow got on her feet again she journeyed on until she came to a river in Bloomhill. She swam across the river but she had not gone very far from it when she(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Pillion
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Turley
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
