School: Drumcoghill
- Location:
- Drumcoghill Lower, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Uí Iomaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0982, Page 245
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- A man was passing through a fort one night going for a midwife.
He met a little man on his way, who said he would land him at her house in a few minutes, if he would not talk by the way. The man promised he would not.
In a second he was sitting on the back of a white calf. The calf started to gallop, and to jump hedges, and ditches, and drains. But at last it came to a very, very wide drain which the calf jumped with ease. Then the man was so frightened that he shouted out at the top of his voice "Well: talk or not talk: that was a good hump for a calf"
- Collector
- Mrs A. Montgomery
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Corr, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Ruby Armstrong
- Gender
- Female
