School: Cill Srianáin (Jamestown) (roll number 1024)
- Location:
- Jamestown, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Ghormáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0210, Page 365
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Churning
“On every May Eve people made a gad of "Soundberry" and put it on the dash when churning...”
On every May Eve people made a gad of '[s?]oundberry' and put it on the dash when churning, so that no one could 'take' the butter from them during the year.
Another custom: - they put a pinch of salt in the 'churning' and another pinch in the fire.
Often a man with 2 cows would have more butter than a man with 12; this was worked with a 'dead hand'.
If a man came in to light his pipe while the churning was on, he would not be let do so, until he took a dreas and said "God bless the work".
- Collector
- Kathleen Murray
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tully, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Peter Moran
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kildorragh, Co. Leitrim