School: Gallbhaile (roll number 1316)
- Location:
- Galbally, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Mícheál L. Mac Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0902, Page 141
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- (continued from previous page)When this is done it is salted, weighed and made into pounds.The buttermilk is kept to make bread. That bread is very nice. The bread that is made with buttermilk does not get stale as quickly either.Some times people believed that if anybody churned on May Day the butter would be taken by the faries. On this account most people do not churn on that day. (This is well believed.)People who come in, during the churning, strangers as they may be, help to make the butter, in case that it would be taken by magic. That assistance is given to assure the owner that the visitor will use no magic to take the person's butter.
- Collector
- Peg Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballymorris, Co. Wexford
