School: An Daingean, Cuinche
- Location:
- Dangan, Co. Clare
- Teachers: Stiofán Mac Clúin Treasa Ní Chonmara
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Some women used to skim the the water in the wells on May morning and bring it home in buckets .The water was kept in crocks this whole year round and some of it used to be put in the churn and in this cream to keep the bad neighbours from milking the cows and from taking the butter.
If a man came into a house where a churn was being made to put a coal in his pipe he would not be allowed to touch the coal without first taking a turn at making the churn and then then another turn after putting the coal in his pipe before he left the house.Sometimes he would not be allowed leave this house until the churn was made .A sprig of palm blessed on Palm Sunday was used to sprinkle the house and out offices stock and fowl and plants with Holy Easter Water.(continues on next page)
