School: Ráithíní (Rehins)
- Location:
- Rahans, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Longáin
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- XML “Churning”
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- "About sixty years ago, I was churning in my house, in the town-land of Barnfield, backs, Co. Mayo. When I was churning a beggar woman came in. She never said "God bless the work", or took part in the churning before she left the house.
When she went out, I kept on churning. After sometime I noticed that the butter did not appear on the milk. I kept on churning for two hours, but I saw no sign of the butter on the milk.
At last I stopped churning, and in a few days after she came in again. I told her that I could not get any butter on the milk. Then she told me to get the churn and also a bit of straw(continues on next page)- Collector
- Emily Flynn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyderg, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Bridget Callaghan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 90
- Address
- Ballyderg, Co. Mayo