School: Clonlara
- Location:
- Cluain Lára, Co. an Chláir
- Teacher: Dll. Ó Heoghanáin
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- (continued from previous page)quantity. People selling it in the market make it into pounds and nicely paper it with butter paper. The butter milk is given to pigs or calves from which they derive very good nourishment.
Long ago there was a lot of witchcraft or physiques as they were called. It happened in my grandmothers time when she was churning the cream when the servant man walked in to kindle his pipe. He went out again returning in about an hour to rekindle his pipe. My grandmother asked him to put his hand on the churn. He said it was about time you asked me as I could leave you churning there for the whole day. He just twisted the churn for a few strokes when the cream was into butter. He was a stranger in the place and a Freemason.
- Collector
- Josie Moloney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dún Easa, Co. an Chláir
- Informant
- Miss Ellie Hayes
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Occupation
- Domestic worker
- Address
- Dún Easa, Co. an Chláir
