School: Dumha-chaisil
- Location:
- Caisleán an Dumha, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Dubhda
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0117, Page 298
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- (continued from previous page)and gets the sticks that another person's cow has walked on and if he puts them in the fire under a kettle of water and then pours that water on the churn, he will, have all that person's butter for the year. there are many superstitions concerning churning. there was once a man going to a fair in Ballaghadereen. When he came near the town, he went into a house where the people were churning. He asked for a coal and the woman of the house gave it to him. That day twelve-months that man was going to the same fair and he went in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Roddy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baile an Dumha nó Caisleán an Dumha, Co. Mhaigh Eo
