School: Shannow
- Location:
- Shannow Wood, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: B. Ó Ciaráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1025, Page 253
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- (continued from previous page)If anybody comes in while you are churning it is an old custom that they should take a 'brash', because it is supposed that they take the butter off the churn if they dont do so.
A short while after churning is started boiling water is added in order to break the milk. When the churning is nearly finished the butter begins to gather in little lumps on the dash.
Long ago it was an old custom that on a May Eve a little ring known as a "gad" used to be made out of rowan-tree and hung on the churn-dash so as to prevent the witches from taking the butter off the churn for the year.
Another old custom was, that if a man went into your house to light his pipe and you churning he would have to take a brash before(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Mc Entee
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killoughter, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Daniel Mc Entee
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
- Address
- Killoughter, Co. Cavan
