School: Gort na Díogha (roll number 15587)
- Location:
- Gortnadeeve West, Co. Galway
- Teachers: Séamus Ó Dochartaigh Bean Uí Dhochartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0016, Page 145
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- (continued from previous page)it burned her.
- I sold a cow to a woman between Ballymoe and Creggs. She said "drive the cow into a yard" and she went and got a saucepan. Then she said 'catch her by the horns' and herself milked the cow. When she had the cow milked she drank three sups of it. I asked her why she did that and she said "I will tell you" "Yours is the ninth cow I have bought and no butter on any of them. I was told the next one I would buy to drink first part of the milk and that is why I did it.
If that is so I said I am afraid you'll have no butter off this cow although she has butter. Someone must be taking the butter. Yes she said a neighbouring woman that churns milk on Sunday morning before sunrise.
Well that is(continues on next page) - Informant
- Thomas Brennan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 91
- Address
- Knockmascahill, Co. Galway
