School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceannanus Mór
- Location:
- Kells, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máthais Íde
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0702, Page 252
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- (continued from previous page)watery, and this is put in a vessel by itself, and the strippings into another. The strippings is twice as rich in butter as the fore-milk.
You dip your finger into the froth of th milk and make the sign of the cross on the cow's hip with it. A good milker always rises foam on the milk.
A wicked cow must have some sort of tie or rope going from its hoof to its horn.
Swallows are very lucky in a byre, but you should not interfere with them.
Once some children robbed a swallow's nest in a byre, and the ilk turned into blood.
- Collector
- Mollie Mc Govern
- Gender
- Female
