School: Shivdillagh (roll number 6774)
- Location:
- Shivdelagh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Thomas Byrne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0204, Page 217
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- There was once a woman who used to go to milk her cows to a field and there was a fort beside the field. One evening when she was milking this black cow she heard a child crying in the fort. The she heard a woman saying to the child "whist the black cow will soon be milked". When the woman had the cow just just milked she up with her foot and spilled the can of milk so the child stopped crying then. Every-time she would milk the cow she would spill it. When the woman found out that the people in the fort wanted the cow's milk she stopped milking the black cow and left her out at night. The cow died in sometime after and the woman had plenty of money after and the rest of her cows did well for her and she never missed the black cow's milk.
- Collector
- Annie Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Shivdelagh, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mrs E. Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 79
- Address
- Shivdelagh, Co. Leitrim
