School: An Ghráinseach (2), Cill an Mhuilinn
- Location:
- Grange, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Nóra, Bean Uí Lionáin
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- (continued from previous page)own candles and rush lights for lighting their homes. They had very small windows in the houses and sometimes they had no glass.
- Long ago there was a fairy cow at the top of the Nagle mountains called "Bhó Bhán." She used to supply all the people of the locality with milk. No matter how many buckets they brought she would fill them all.
This old woman bet that she would get a vessel that the cow could not fill. So she got a sieve and the milk ran through it. After that the cow disappeared and she was never seen again.- Collector
- Lizzie Hayes
- Gender
- Female
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- David Hayes
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Grange, Co. Cork