School: Carnadough (C.), Newtowncashel
- Location:
- Cornadowagh, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chathasaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0753, Page 481
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- About thirty years ago it happened in my Grandfathers Patrick Heavey Clonmee that they were two years and never a bit of butter on the milk. When they were churning one day a neighbouring woman came in and they told her that they were tired churning for the last two years and never got a bit of butter. So she told them the next time they would be churning to lock the door and stuff the chimney and put the sock of the plough in the fire and the cake that they they would have the candles in on twelveth night under the churn and that they would bring the person who was taking the butter to the house. The next time when they were churning they did what they were told. When they were a while churning a neighbouring man came in to light his pipe and Grandfather made him take the dash and the churn at once flowed over with butter. Every time afterwards they had their supply of butter, and until my Grandfather Patrick Heavey died three years ago he always made them put the cake under the churn when they would be churning.
- Collector
- Philomena Heavey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonmee, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Joseph Heavey
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloonmee, Co. Longford
