School: Dromad (roll number 16781)
- Location:
- Drumod, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Millicent "Nuabhroinn"
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0214, Page 029
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - Long ago in Ireland people used to scutch flax and about 10 or 15 wemon used to gather to one house and scutch the flax. One night there was women scutching and one old woman who owned the place said she could make calleannon so she started to churn and told the other wemon to go to bed. The beds were arranged around the room where the woman was churning. One woman kept awake and watched the woman churning. When the woman had churned she went over to an old trunks and took out a dead hand and said it is to gather far and wide and gather all you can. So she took a few tub fulls of butter of the churn. The man who was watching her said only she had the dead hand she would not have as much butter.
