School: Abbeyleix (South) (roll number 14260)
- Location:
- Abbeyleix, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Mrs Galbraith
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0831, Page 330
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - A woman who had about six cows used to get only about two pounds of butter off her churn every week.
Some distance away there lived another woman who had one cow and she used to have about twenty pounds of butter off her churn every week.
How it happened was the woman who had one cow collected her cream and at the churning day she went to the river early on the morning of May and kept saying "All to me, All to me". Then she would go home(continues on next page)
