School: Listowel (B.) (roll number 1797)
- Location:
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Brian Mac Mathúna
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- 1. Once upon a time there lived a farmer in Lixnaw. This man's farm was next to a fort and the first thing this man would do every morning often getting up was to go out on top of a little hillock and count the cattle. Well, one morning as he went out to count the cattle he noticed that there was one of the cows missing. He went through the fields and inside one of the drains he saw an old cow. The next morning he went out he saw his own cow feeding longside the ditch so he stole down along the ditch, jumped over and caught the cow by the tail, and the moment he did the cow went for the fort. When they came near the fort it opened up and the cow ran down the steps but the man held on to the cow's tail. When he went down inside there was a lot of old people in the fort so they asked him to sit down but the man said "No", that all he wanted was his cow, and they told him he could not have her. As he looked up in the corner he saw a very old woman and she beckoned to him to take a cow-spancel which was hanging on the wall. The man did and when he did the cow turned around and walked up the steps and out of the fort.
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- Collector
- Gerard Hartnett
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clievragh, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Jack Hartnett
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clievragh, Co. Kerry