School: Loch an Toirc (roll number 9584)

Location:
Loughatorick South, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Bean Uí Mhuirgheasa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0050, Page 0287

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    to burn these old things if you got them.
    One day a woman was churing she was childing all day and had no butter.
    A little woman came in that evening, that had been buried for two years and was looking at the churn the told her story you gave butter milk to your neighbour and she wanted no milk but to get your butter.
    Take Three ribs over your door and go to her cabin some night and take three draws out of every tit she got back her butter again.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary F. Molloy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Loughatorick North, Co. Galway