School: Termonfeckin (roll number 16209)
- Location:
- Termonfeckin, Co. Louth
- Teacher: T. Ó Corcoráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0676, Page 129
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- (continued from previous page)it is also given to calves and pigs.
Long churning makes good butter and sells well on the market. Primrose coloured butter takes first prize at a show. Women and butter look well in the night These are three old sayings.
The smallest child in the house is put standing on a stool, to take the dash and it is said that the child, leaves the weight of itself of butter in the churn.
When anyone wanted to take the butter of another's cow, they brought their churn with them on May morning and churned the milk under the eye of the bridge, and said.
Gather near, gather far.
And bring everyone's butter in here.
- Collector
- Kitty Hanratty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Collon, Co. Louth
