School: Shanbogh, New Ross (roll number 5297)
- Location:
- Shanbogh Upper, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Seán Ó Dubhghaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0846, Page 131
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- Skimming the well was a May morning custom and I have got the following account from Mrs Greene.
Butter making was carried out extensively in the district about a hundred years ago and less in her grandparents' and parents' time. Of course the summer months was the butter period and the people took the butter by the road to Waterford where there was a very special butter market. In this district of small famers each neighbour had a very shrewd idea of the number of firkins of butter his neighbour could manage to bring to Waterford.
Suspicion giving rise to careful watching it was discovered that certain people were bringing(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs Greene
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- c. 60
- Address
- Shanbogh Upper, Co. Kilkenny
