Volume: CBÉ 0190
- Date
- 1936
- Collector
- Locations
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0190, Page 206
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“One morning at Kilmore Quay...”
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“It is a custom in the Co. Wexford that when a person goes in to a dairy he or she must say "God bless the work"...”
It is a custom in the Co. Wexford that when a person goes in to a dairy he or she must say "God bless the work" or they must take a hand at the churn. There are certain people and they are unlucky. If they happen to go into a dairy something is sure to happen There was one man went in to a dairy down in Kilmore and he didn't say"God bless the work" or anything, and then after some time he went off. The woman who was churning couldn't stop. There was some kind of a spell on her. She churned away and didn't speak to anybody and the people thought that she was going mad. They(continues on next page)