School: Convent of Mercy, Buncrana (roll number 16632)
- Location:
- Buncrana, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Sr Mary Josephine
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1111, Page 173
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- There are certain local customs observed around this district , one of them is . When the bean-a -tighe is churning she always makes the sign of the cross on the churn in which the milk is , or puts a pinch of Blessed salt into it , this was to ensure that the fairies should not steal the cream off the Church.
This is remembered of olden days when the old people believed that a fairy came in the form of a hare , and stole the cream this leaving no butter . After that all the people in the village began to kill all the hares they could find . Now if anyone enters the house when the bean- a -tigh is churning they always go to the Churn and say "God bless the work".
Some of the old people also believed that there were certain people(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eilís Níc Colgan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Buncrana, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Máire Níc Lochlainn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Buncrana, Co. Donegal
