School: Stormanstown, Ardee (roll number 9371)
- Location:
- Stormanstown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: P. Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0668, Page 022
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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.
- (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(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Jamie Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corstown, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Margaret Murphy
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corstown, Co. Meath
