School: Bealach (roll number 5811)
- Location:
- Ballagh, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Daltúin
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- Long ago when the poor people who were living on the side of the mountain had no milk God sent a cow around to give them milk and whoever saw her could milk her no matter how many times a day. If you milked her into an egg-cup she would fill it and no more, and if you milked her into the largest vessel you had she would also fill it.
There is a little insect of a red shining colour around this district knows as God's little cow.- Collector
- Margret Murray
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Sheehaun (Hughes), Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- John Bermingham
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Sheehaun (Hughes), Co. Roscommon