School: West Waterford Branch I.N.T.O (roll number n/a)
- Location:
- Coshmore and Coshbride, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: James Cashman
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0640, Page 83
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- (continued from previous page)If a person milked another person's cows on a May morning and kept the milk, the owner could not make any butter. When he would put the cream into the churn it would turn into blood.
(This belief is prevalent in all districts in West Waterford. My father James Cashmar [?] Youghal now aged 70 years told me that he remembers about 50 years ago when the cows could be let out at night from Patrick Day onwards, the weather being so fine. But on May eve they would be put into the houses and soil cut for them. (He was referring to the change in the weather. In the district the cows are often in [stall?] after May eve now. There would be no chance of getting soil now.) Sometimes instead of putting the cows in the owner would get up very early in the morning and go out to watch them or perhaps stay up all night. This year the cows happened to be out before the first of May but one man in the district to my own knowledge put them in).(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Cashman
- Gender
- Male
