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School: An Talamh Bán

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Tallavbaun, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Ml. Mac Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0137, Page 128

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    taken out into the dish. The butter milk is kept for making bread. They wet the flour with the butter milk.
    There is a tradition that when a person comes in he should take the dash for a while in case he would bring the butter.
    The people used to put a coal under the churn for fear the churning would not make, others used to put a horse shoe in the fire that someone would come in
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. butter and churns (~3,280)
    Language
    Irish
    Collector
    Seán Ó hOistín
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Corragaun, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Séamus Mac Domhnaill
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Tallavbaun, Co. Mayo