School: Clochar na Trócaire, Carn Domhnaigh (roll number 16821)
- Location:
- Ballylosky, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Beirín Ní Bhaoighill
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- (continued from previous page)butter. She told the priest, and he blessed salt for her and told her not to believe in the witches. She used the salt and ever afterwards she had plenty of milk and butter.
- A poor old woman lived in Goorey in the County of Culdaff and a crowd of other women always came t her house to spin. The women of the house noticed from the time they began to come she never had any butter when she churned. She told her confessor what was happening and he told her to make the spinners say, "God bless the milk," and she who did not say so was taking the best of the cow's milk away. The woman did as she was told and one of the(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs Susan Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 42
- Address
- Cashel, Co. Donegal