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School: Cluain Tuirc (C.)

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Cloonturk, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Máire Ní Gharaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0217, Page 036

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    Story: Butter Snatching
    Long ago there lived around Dromod a family name Clyne who used to lose butter. Every week they had seven or eight crocks of milk to churn and could never get a bit of butter off the milk. An old woman lived not far from them who used to take the butter off the churn by some witch craft. The old woman had a goat and she used to gather her milk and went through the form of churning and she got plenty of butter off the goats milk. The Clyne family told the parish priest of their ill luck. The priest told them to put the coulter of a plough in the fire in the morning while they were churning and who ever used
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Minnie Maxwell
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    14
    Address
    Furnace or Bleankillew, Co. Leitrim
    Informant
    Mrs Maxwell
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Furnace or Bleankillew, Co. Leitrim