School: Aughclare
- Location:
- Aughclare, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: M.E. Campbell
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0873, Page 192
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“There were more people living in Aclamon, who had no luck in Churning.”
(continued from previous page)ninety if he were alive now.
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“My mother told me that she heard the old people saying...”
My mother told me that she heard the old people saying when she was a child that who-ever wanted to "take" the butter on another person would go and skim the water of the well (with a saucer) he used, in his name. The person whose name was used would not have any butter after churning, after that. - Collector
- Kathleen Kent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Aughclare, Co. Wexford
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“Years ago, people by the name of Forrestals lived in the house...”
Years ago, people by the name of Forrestals lived in a house inwhich I am living now, and it is said that they could never have any butter off the cream until they found out who was taking it.
One day the old woman was churning in the dairy and she saw a roll of saltless butter stuck on(continues on next page) - Collector
- Nellie Shannon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballymaclare, Co. Wexford