School: Dún Gar (Frenchpark) (roll number 3961)
- Location:
- Frenchpark, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tomás Mac Mághnuis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0243, Page 277
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- (continued from previous page)The hermit discarded his pail and got a sieve instead. Now here comes the miraculous part of the story. Immediately he made use of the sieve as a milking vessel, the old cow parted with her supply of milk and more remarkable still not one drop leaked through the interstices of the sieve. Now with the witch milking a supply in the ordinary way and the hermit an extraordinary one, it is only natural that the poor animal should in
a short time fade away, and this did happen. But the hermit kept the head of his friend over his door. In the course of time the fame of the hermit's holiness spread and other people became attracted to the spot. Eventually the abbey was built and on the very top of the steeple was placed a stone image
of the old cow the sean-mhaoil. Tradition has it that when it falls the
end of the world will be near at hand. It is there now. The stones immediately under it are very far out from the perpendicular and are very loose looking. But as they have been so for generations now we do not yet look forward to the end of the world as an immediate catastrophe.(continues on next page)
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