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School: Cuar an Chláir (C)

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Cooraclare, Co. Clare
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Máiréad, Bean Uí Mháirtín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0631, Page 129

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  1. Old Practices of the Irish - The Custom of Taking the Butter May Eve (continued)

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    (a) About 90 years ago there lived a tailor in Dromelihy in a certain house. May eve the woman of the house had a churn made and she went to a neighbour of hers, leaving the tailor sewing away from himself. A man came in, in her absence and took a coal with him to light his pipe. As he did so the tailor got up and put another into an oven and covered it. The man came back a second and a third time repeating what he did at first. The tailor repeated his action likewise. The woman of the house soon returned and on going to the churn-barrel noticed she hadn’t as much as a bite of butter though there had been three big lumps of butter in it before she left. The tailor turned round and told her take the cover off the oven. There she found her three lumps of butter saved by the tailor when he counter-acted the actions of the man who wanted to bring the woman’s butter.
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  2. Old Practices of the Irish - The Taking Away of the Nice Girls

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    Years ago there lived in Dromelihy a man named Martin Brown. As he was giving hay to his cattle one evening he noticed four horsemen coming towards him and with them was a riderless horse. He asked them to take him with them. He got astride the horse and off they went till they came to the mouth of the Shannon near Kilrush. Across they went into Kerry to a
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Sara Considine
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    16
    Address
    Drumellihy (Cunningham), Co. Clare
    Informant
    Denis Considine
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    54
    Address
    Drumellihy (Cunningham), Co. Clare