School: Tallanstown (roll number 2746)
- Location:
- Tallonstown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: E. Mac Gráinnne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0667, Page 189
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- Buttermilk is used for baking bread and for feeding pigs. When it is fresh people take it for a drink. There are a couple of old stories connected with butter-making. This is one of them: There was an old woman living in Stormanstown about seventy years ago.
The neighbours used to say that she worked a charm and when she was passing by and people churning she took some of the butter off the churn.
She turned herself into a hare and ran through the fields.
The people used to talk to her because they were afraid she would take the butter off the churn. They feared her rather than they loved her. The neighbours did not like her.
She did not take the milk off the churn or suck the cows.
- Collector
- Colman O' Brien
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tallonstown, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Mrs O' Brien
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tallonstown, Co. Louth
