School: Lisball
- Location:
- Lisball, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Doherty
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- Meldrum was a famous prophet who flourished around the Cavan Meath border, in the first decade of the nineteenth century. He was a servant boy employed by a priest. One day when attending cattle in a field he saw a bull coming down out of the air, and serving one of the cows. He told the priest what he had seen, and the priest told him to pay particular attention to this cow, and let no person drink any of her milk after(continues on next page)