School: St Joseph's, Béal Átha Seanaigh
- Location:
- Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: An Br. S. Ó Murchadha
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- Paddy Mc Cormack
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballynacarrick, Co. Donegal
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- Mrs Mc Cormack
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballynacarrick, Co. Donegal
- Long ago the people had a strange way of fixing butter after churning. When they were finished churning they put the butter into a wooden vessel called a butt, which held thirty or forty pounds. They brought this to the market and sold it by the butt, and the butter buyer put a wooden affair called an ogre? down into the butter to see if it was fresh.(continues on next page)
