School: Cill Srianáin (Jamestown) (roll number 1024)
- Location:
- Jamestown, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Ghormáin
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Churning
“On May morning the fairies would get the dirt from between a cow's hooves ...”
On May morning the fairies would get the dirt from between a cow's hooves. Then they would have the butter off that cow's milk. To prevent this, People got a gad of roundberry and put it on the Churn dash on May morning.
If they did not do this they would have no butter - and the fairies would.- Collector
- James Kane
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lisdauky, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Peter Moran
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kildorragh, Co. Leitrim