School: Caisleán Nua (C) (roll number 15772)
- Location:
- Newcastle, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Staic
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- (continued from previous page)because they said that all the luck would go from the churning. The barrel churns are about four feet high and one food wide. A hole was left in the lid of the churn for putting in the milk and then it was covered with a piece of wood with a less bigger hole called a churn plate. Then a long stick was put down through the hole and the milk was pounded with this stick. If a stranger came in while churning was going on he had to take a hand but the people said if they did not they would bring away the luck from the house.
There was a family of the Watts living in Monivea. One day as they were churning a stranger came in. He did not take the dash. They didn't know the man but when he was gone they could not churn the milk. Every night after that for seven years the same man used to come to the kitchen and be churning and one night John Watt got up but the man vanished. At last they got the priest to say mass in the house and the churning was never heard after that.
