School: Clochar na Trócaire, An Uaimh
- Location:
- Navan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: An tSiúr Concepta
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- It is the custom in the district of Summerhill if one person comes into a house and if the people of that house are churning one must do a little at the churning in case he would steal the butter.
My Mammie told me a story once of a women who lived beside her and one day she was churning and a beggar man came in. The woman gave him his dinner and when he was going he said "Well I better leave you the worth of my dinner Man." He took the dash in his hand and took a few dashes of the churn then he went out. When he was gone the woman could not lift the(continues on next page)- Collector
- Rosie Lynch
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Lynch
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumsawry or Summerbank, Co. Meath