School: Ráth Laogh (roll number 10479)
- Location:
- Rathlee, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Criostóir Ó Hiceadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0166, Page 075
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- Long a go there lived a woman in Rathlee. She brought her churn to the well to wash and scrub it. She used a bunch of heather as a scrubbing brush. She forgot to bring her brush back with her and another woman picked it up and kept it. The woman who lost her brush never had a good churning after that. She could never get butter off her milk and the woman who found the brush always had twice the usual quantity of butter from her milk.
- Collector
- Máire Ní Cheallaigh
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Pat O Brine
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Carrowmacbryan, Co. Sligo
