School: Liathdruim
- Location:
- Leitrim Beg, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Mainnín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0054, Page 0119
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“About a half a century ago there was a certain woman in Ballinkill and she was able to keep her house with the profit of the butter.”
About a half a century ago there was a certain woman in Ballinkill and she was able to keep her house with the profit of the butter. One day she was churning her churn got filled up with white matter and no butter. An old woman in the neighbour came in and she told her that there was a woman in Limehill who had a charm to bring back butter. So the old woman went and whatever the woman in Limehill gave her she put it under the churn after she coming home and the butter came back.
Collected by Anna M. Rabbitte - Old Sayings.
1. "The longer you live the more you will see."
2. "The ready way round is the shortest way home."
3. It is bad wind that would not blow(continues on next page)