School: Naomh Ceitheach, Runnamoat (roll number 8499)
- Location:
- Runnamoat, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Gráinne, Bean Uí Neachtain
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- There is a common superstition especially among elderly people about churning - namely that if anyone enters while the churning is going on, and either places a lighted coal in his pipe or takes out one without giving a hand at the work brings the butter with him.
The following is a tale I heard my mother recount which she heard in her childhood.
Her mother owned three cows famous for the amount of butter which their milk produced. Twice or three times a week she had to churn and sold the butter in the(continues on next page)- Collector
- Gertrude Mary Morton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Runnamoat, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs Maria Ballenlyne
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Runnamoat, Co. Roscommon