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1. Butter

   

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   Patrick O Hara who lived in the townland of Umera about thirty years ago was churning for a considerable length without any result. He thought the good people might have taken the butter. He told a neighbour named James O Donnell who told him to make a rowan tree gad and put it on the dash the next time he would be churning and that it would bring the butter back if anything would bring it back. He took his neighbours advice and the next time he churned the butter was back again the same as if nothing had happened length length

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. agriculture (~2,659)
            1. butter and churns (~3,280)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Hugh Mc Grail

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   Phil Dolan

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   66

   Address

   Dowra, Co. Cavan

2. Butter

   

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   In the townland of Umera there lived a poor woman who had only on cow, and every week she would churn. One evening while churning a woman who lived in the same townland passed by the door to a well which was near at hand.
   When she was coming back she spoke but did not ask to churn any and passed on her way. About ten minutes after when the other woman went to take off the butter she found that she had none.
   She then guessed that the woman had brought it. After some time she thought of a

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