School: Bun an Fhionnghlaise (roll number 11454)
- Location:
- Bunnafinglas, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: P. Ó Maoláin
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- Sicimí, sicimí, seach
Do dhíolas do dhíolas ab blách
Gach iula deórm di dguikas ab scúr
Sicimí, sicimí, seachLong ago the people had no churn and they used to thicken the milk in a bottle. When the churning was done they took out the butter and salted it. They would then put the butter into a pail and put it on their head and go barefooted to the market with it.
Some of the people long ago used to pack their butter in wooden dishes and firkins and bury it until there was a good price for it. Sometimes they used to forget where they buried it and it would remain in the ground.
One day Patrick Kimeafry of (Barrets Town) Carrowkerribla was cutting turf in the Carrowkerribla bogs and he came across a flag in the(continues on next page)- Collector
- Peggie Josephine Padden
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowkeribly, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Michael Padden
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 69
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Carrowkeribly, Co. Mayo