School: Bun an Fhionnghlaise (roll number 11454)
- Location:
- Bunnafinglas, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: P. Ó Maoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0127, Page 64
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- (continued from previous page)not give any buttermilk, on May Day for fear they would have no butter for the rest of that year.
Long ago the people used to go out on New Years Day and milk some otherbody's cow. The person that the cow belonged to, would not have any butter off that cows milk for the year.
Long ago the people used to put a lump of unsalted butter up on the rafters of the house, of the first milk after a cow would calf, for fear the fairies would take that butter
Long ago the people used to mix up unsalted butter and sugar and eat it when they would have a sore throat and it would cure them.ChurnsThere are different kinds of churns. The people long ago used mostly use dash churns and push-churns
The dash-churn is a kind(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peggie Josephine Padden
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowkeribly, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Michael Padden
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 69
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Carrowkeribly, Co. Mayo
