School: Ros Nuala (Rossnowlagh) (roll number 11599)
- Location:
- Rossnowlagh Upper or Crockahany, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Síle Ní Mhaoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1033, Page 195
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- (continued from previous page)Weighed out into pound or two pound rolls. The buttermilk is used for drinking and for porridge. Long ago, the butter was kept in butts which used to hold about fifty-six pounds.I heard of a woman who was churning and another woman came in and when she went out again there was no butter on the churn.I heard of other people who could not get butter off he churn for five years, but the priest brought it back to them and they nailed a horse shoe on the bottom of the churn and it is supposed to bring them luck.
- Collector
- Mrs Stronge
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rossnowlagh, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Vera Stronge
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rossnowlagh, Co. Donegal
