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School: Sisters of Charity Convent N.S., Bealach an Doirín

Location:
Ballaghaderreen, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
An tSr. Seosamh Ní Cheallaigh
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    When a churning is going on in a house and if a man comes in in the meantime he should take the churning for a few minutes.
    One day a man went into a house. He asked for a drink of buttermilk and the woman of the house gave it to him. The next churning the woman was making she could get no butter off it A month later the same
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. butter and churns (~3,280)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Quinn
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mr Mac Donagh
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballaghaderreen, Co. Roscommon