School: Crois-Bhóthar
- Location:
- Pollacorragune, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Eibhlín Ní Bhreitheamhan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0039, Page 0277
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- 1. Milk is given away on May Day.
2. Milk is not given away after a cow calves, till a churning is made.
3. A person is not to bring a lighted coal in his pipe out of a house when a churning is made.
4. If some food falls from a person when he is eating, he does not take it up as "Someone wants it", he says, - meaning the "good people".
5. When a person has finished milk-ing he makes a the Sign of the Cross with milk on the cow's lip.
6. When a cow calves, a red rag is tied to her tail, and a live coal is passed(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Ní Sheachnasaigh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tonlegee, Co. Galway
