School: Dromlachan
- Location:
- Sunnagh More, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Peadar Mac Giolla Choinnigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0221, Page 549
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- (continued from previous page)And when he goes out another coal should be taken out of the fire and left on the floor and quenched.On May Eve a round-berry gad was always placed on the dash. Long ago some bad people used to get up early on a May morning. They put down no fire, but stayed looking out their own windows, and when they saw their neighbour's smoke they said:- "The half of it is mine." The next time they churned, they had half their neighbours' butter. There lived a woman in Drumlegga, Cloone, used to do this, and one day a man went in while she was taking off the butter and he saw that half of it was white and the other half yello. This was told by Con Mahon, Farmer Drumlegga Cloone aged 55.Other people used a "dead hand" for taking their neighbours butter. The dead hand was that of a young person that had "the decline." They could take it from the 3 townsland.Once a man came into a house where churning was going on. He put a coal in his pipe. When walking out the door(continues on next page)
- Collector
- P. Mac Giolla Choinnigh
- Gender
- Male
