School: Belcarra (Buachaillí)
- Location:
- Ballycarra, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Heireamhóin
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- Long ago if you went into a house and a churning to be going on you should put a coal under it and a grain of salt into it, and if you did not that person would never have a bit of butter out of it. It happened that a red haired woman went into this house, while a woman was churning and took all the butter on her. For months she had no butter until at last one day a priest, having come into the house, and she told him of how she had been churning for months and never got a bit of butter. He told her to go to the red haired woman and tell her she was down and out and would she kindly spare a bit of butter. She having done as he had commanded her and she always had enough of butter from that day forth
Charles A Daly
Belcarra
Castlebar
Co Mayo
This was told to me by my mother Mrs Daly Age 35 years
- Collector
- Charles A. Daly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballycarra, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Daly
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 35
- Address
- Ballycarra, Co. Mayo
