School: Taobh na Cruaiche (roll number 4494)
- Location:
- Teevenacroaghy, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: N. Ní Mhóráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0138, Page 327
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- (continued from previous page)go to the witch for advice. He did so and she told him to examine the building and to take out any stones on which the morter or lime did not rest, and to leave them where he had found them. He did so, and from that day forth he prospered. She tells people who loose their butter to go out on May Day and cut an ash plant before sunrise and tie it around the churn to save the butter. There are not many of those witches in Ireland at the present day.
- Collector
- Marie Mc Greal
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Fahburren, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mr Michael Mc Greal
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Fahburren, Co. Mayo
