School: Cnoc an Bhile, Upton (roll number 4152)
- Location:
- Upton, Co. Cork
- Teachers: D. Ó Donnchadha S. Ní Liatháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0322, Page 321
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- (continued from previous page)was said to "take" the butter.
One day he sent for the butter. When the priest came he told the man to twist a twig around the handle of the churn, and then he started to pray over it. When the man had finished praying, the hare jumped out of the barrel, and from that day on the man had no trouble with his butter. ---------------------------------------------
Long ago the farmers around Brinny could make no butter with Kitty the Hare. She milked the cows morning and evening during the Summer months before they were taken from the field. She always left one cow untouched.
One morning a farmer went out for the cows. He took with him two greyhounds. The hare was in the middle of the cows. The greyhounds chased(continues on next page)
