School: Ceis (roll number 15342)
- Location:
- Kesh, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Proinnsias Ó Hainín
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- (continued from previous page)his surprise to see a fine mare and her two foals grazing peacefully in the field. He immediately set about looking for the owner, but no owner turned up.
After a year he sold the foals and bought cows, and each year the mare had a lovely foal for him. All the neighbours wondered but the man remembered the old woman's blessing when he befriended her on that bleak snowy night.
- Collector
- Brigid A. Tighe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballymote, Co. Sligo
