School: Glenderry (roll number 10403)
- Location:
- Glenderry, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Gleathbhúir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0417C, Page 03_042
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- Long ago in the time of the famine the people were very hungry because of the lack of food. There was a cow going around the parish and the people could get no owner for her. So they started to milk the cow.
Every one used to carry a bucket of milk from the cow and the cow kept around the parish. There was a bad woman in the parish and she brought a strainer to milk the cow, she wanted to know would the cow keep milking long.
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- Collector
- Pat Godley
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Richard Godley
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Dromatoor, Co. Kerry
