School: Clews' Memorial (roll number 15465)
- Location:
- Boyle, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Máire Ní Néill
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0234, Page 078
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
Download
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Clews' Memorial
- XML Page 078
- XML “Story”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
Story (continued)
“One evening a man (John Connor did not remember his name) was walking near a fort…..”
(continued from previous page)cow I have if that child stopped crying. The next morning he got the best cow he had, dead in the byre. Before many months had passed, every cow he had died One evening, many years after, he was coming from the bog with a cart of turf, and he met a young man on the road who spoke to him and asked him how he was getting on. The man told him the full story, and then the stranger told him that he was the ["man" struck out] child whom he had heard crying that evening. He gave the man a five-pound note and told him to go to a fair which was to be held a few miles away. He told the man that he would see an old cow, shaking with age, outside a red-painted gate, and to buy her and he would not be sorry.
The man went to the fair and bought the cow. Some weeks after she had a calf, and before long he had a big herd of cattle. The landlord sent his sheriff to take the best of the cattle. The night(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bertie Mc Garry
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Garrow, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- John Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 73
- Address
- Garrow, Co. Roscommon