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School: Abhainn Bheag (roll number 3924)

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Owenbeg, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Criostóir Mac Gáfraidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0165, Page 210

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    and wash them with straw or heather. When they had finished they gathered all the straw for fear of any other person getting it and washing their churns with them, because it was said that if they washed their churns with the same straw, they had all the butter of the year with them.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. butter and churns (~3,280)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Tomas Taylor
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    William Higgins
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Fortland, Co. Sligo