Volume: CBÉ 0190
- Date
- 1936
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Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0190, Page 207
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“It is a custom in the Co. Wexford that when a person goes in to a dairy he or she must say "God bless the work"...”
(continued from previous page)They didn't know what to do until somebody advised them to go for the man that came in when they were starting to churn. So they went in search of the man and found him and brought him back. The moment he came into the dairy the woman stopped churning and was allright, but when she got back her speech she said she was in an awful way.
It often happened in this county that if a person came into a place where people would be churning, and the butter "went against them" as the saying is, they would never be satisfied until that person would be brought back again, and then it often happened that the butter would come allright(continues on next page)