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School: Drumshanbo (C.) (roll number 12873)

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Drumshanbo, Co. Leitrim
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Margaret Flynn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0207, Page 137

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    the coal, and when he had his pipe lit, he threw it into a bundle of rushes. The woman could not get any butter off the milk until the man returned about eight months after wards.
    Mrs McLoughlin told him when he returned that she oculd not get any butter off her milk, since he was there before.
    He went out again and returned with the coal and threw it into the fire. Mrs McLoughlin churned that day, and got all the butter back that she should have got.
    This occured in the town land of Aughnagallop. Mrs McLoughlin died about four years ago.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Phyllis Sissons
    Gender
    Female