School: Dromard (Clochar na Trócaire) (roll number 14041)
- Location:
- Dromard, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: An tSr. Maighréad
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- (continued from previous page)him she knew he was the man she dreamt about. During the day she got an introduction to him. They went to a dance that night and they were married about six months after.
Long ago on May Day some women of a village used to go round a field and pull a straw rope after them. They used to say "Come Butter, Come Butter" and the other women of the village used to be churning and there came no butter. They used to get an iron and put it in the fire. When it was very hot they used to put it under the churn and the butter used to come.
It was an old custom also not to put out the ashes because the people believed that they would throw out the luck. They used to leave it in a bucket under the bed until the following day. They used not give out milk to anyone because they believed that they would be giving milk the whole year.
A long time ago a man came into a house on May Day and the woman of the house was(continues on next page)
