School: Stormanstown, Ardee (roll number 9371)

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1. Stories Relating to Milk, Butter and Churning

   

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   2(a) Anyone who comes into a house where the people are churning should take a brash at the churn and say "God bless your work!". If he did not and if the people thought that they had not as much butter as usual, they would say that the visitor over-looked the butter and brought it with him.

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. agriculture (~2,659)
            1. butter and churns (~3,280)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Jamie Murphy

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Corstown, Co. Meath

   Informant

   Margaret Murphy

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Corstown, Co. Meath

2. Stories Relating to Milk, Butter and Churning

   

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   (b) About sixty years ago in a field in Coole the people of the neighbourhood were poor and each person had a cow of his own but had no land to graze her on. So all the people had their cows in one field grazing and this old hag used to go to the field and milk the cows. One morning two men were out in the field hunting with two greyhounds and they saw this woman milking the cows into two gallons. She was in the shape of a hare. When the dogs saw her they ran after

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