School: Caisleán Gael (roll number 15337)
- Location:
- Castlegal, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: M. Ó Tiománaidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0156, Page 060
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- (continued from previous page)"brashes" or turns, in order to prevent the "Evil Ones" carrying away the butter.
Some people no matter how long they churn can never get any butter on the milk. A local man here can never get any butter on his milk. The story is as follows.
There is an old fort in his land. One day he rooted part of it away. Then he had 4 cows and used to churn 2 times a week; sometimes 4 times depending on the season of the year. He interfered with it on Wednesday and yourned, churned on the following day. He kept at(continues on next page)
