School: Duxtown, Rathkeale (roll number 15943)
- Location:
- Baile na Lathach, Co. Luimnigh
- Teacher: Agnes O' Grady
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0500, Page 424
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- In some district adjoining Ballyallina there lived a family called the Liston's and during that time there were no clocks they knew the time by the sun. Margaret Liston lived with her sister and mother and Mary Fleming was their servant girl. One morning Margaret called Mary and said it was cow time and even later. They got the buckets and went out to the cows. While they were milking, so early, a man came riding a grey horse and stood alongside the girls. The man said why were they milking so early. Long ago the Irish people had the custom of not answering any stranger's questions, but Margaret said to the man that it was not early now, after(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eibhlís Ní Gráda
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr Martin Moylan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baile Uí Áilíonáin Theas, Co. Luimnigh
