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School: Cill Srianáin (Jamestown) (roll number 1024)

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Jamestown, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Bríd Ní Ghormáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0210, Page 366

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    “On May morning the fairies would get the dirt from between a cow's hooves ...”

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    On May morning the fairies would get the dirt from between a cow's hooves. Then they would have the butter off that cow's milk. To prevent this, People got a gad of roundberry and put it on the Churn dash on May morning.
    If they did not do this they would have no butter - and the fairies would.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. butter and churns (~3,280)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    James Kane
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Lisdauky, Co. Leitrim
    Informant
    Peter Moran
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kildorragh, Co. Leitrim