School: Clover Hill (roll number 13262)
- Location:
- Lissagallan, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhaoilealaigh
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- (continued from previous page)59 About fifty years ago "Keening" at funerals was discontinued.64 Belief in district that if you cut a low bush blood is supposed to come forth.Banshee heard by families in the district e. g. Hayden McDermott.56. If a person is churning and a visitor comes in he is supposed to "to take a round of the churn" if not this the belief that no butter can be got.
If a man puts a coal in his pipe while the people are churning he is supposed to take the butter also.
Milk which is gathered when a person dies in a house should not be churned. No butter comes on the churn. Practical proof - ? Quigley.
