School: Muine Chonalláin (C.)
- Location:
- Bunnyconnellan, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: M. Ní Lochnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0128, Page 238
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- It was once the custom in this locality the first time that a cow was milked after having calved to put three halfpence, a pinch of salt and some garlic into the vessel that the milk is put into.
Another custom was to bring [?] a hot coal and to make the sign of the Cross over the cow's back with the coal. A man and a woman have to do this in their turn three times.
Some others used to get an old horseshoe and tie it with a red thread to the cow's tail.
- Collector
- Nora Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bunnyconnellan East, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs B. Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Bunnyconnellan East, Co. Mayo
