School: Dromlogach Mainistir na Féile (roll number 10908)
- Location:
- Dromlegagh, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Eighneachán Ó Muircheartaigh
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“On Christmas night at six o clock...”
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“There was a man there long ago and his wife died.”
There was a man there long ago and his wife died. He was making butter. One day he got eggs in his hay. He couldn't make butter any more. He was in great trouble. One day a travelling woman called and he told her the story. She told him the next time that he would make butter to put an iron into the fire and to let it there until he had the butter made.He did that and he was able to make butter ever afterwards.It is a custom in the Dingle district to sprinkle with water anything which is loaned to a corpse house before returning them