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School: Rath Cruachan

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Rathcroghan, Co. Roscommon
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0251, Page 164

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    to light his pipe should leave back the coal again when the pipe was lit. If a churning is in progress when when a stranger enters a house he must take a "dreas" i. e. a turn or little help at the work before he leaves or the butter will not come on the milk.
    On Bonefire night a person from each house brought a coal from the fire and threw it into a tillage or meadow - field so that the crops could be good that year.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary E. Daly
    Gender
    Female