School: Bun an Fhionnghlaise (roll number 11454)
- Location:
- Bunnafinglas, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: P. Ó Maoláin
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- 1) If a person sings while they are milking the cow gives more milk.2) If the cow is left in the stable all day she gives less milk3) If a person sells or gives away any of the butter or butter-milk out of the first churning of milk after a cow calves she will not give as much the next time4) If a person washes a churn beside a river with a beezum and throws the beezum there the fairies (f) take the butter from them.5) If a person did not put a pinch of salt and a quenched coal under the churtn when they are churning the fairies would take the butter from them6) If a person went into a house where the people were churning and did not churn they would have the butter taken away with them.7) If a person cannot get butter to come on the churn they put a piece of a plough in the heart of the fire till it gets red with the heat and the butter will come back(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nora Mc Nulty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Roosky, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Anthony Mc Nulty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Roosky, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Anthony Mc Nulty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Roosky, Co. Mayo