School: Castletown
- Location:
- Castletown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Owen Maguire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0711, Page 355
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- If strangers come in while we are churning and does not say "God bless the work" or take a brash it is said that they take the butter. The churn is often given a rolling motion to gather the butter. It is said that butter-milk is very healthy to drink.
It is said that it is not right to milk a cow on the ground when she is going dry. It would interfere with the churning.
Once upon a time when Mrs Naulty was churning She stayed at the churning for about an hour and she could get no butter on the milk. There was an old woman in the house with her, and she said we will see now who took the butter. So she went over to the fire and put the tongs into it. Then the door opened and a neighbouring woman came in and (?) the said that it was her that took the butter. They went and told the parish priest about it. He told them to go home and put salt on a head of cabbage and give it to the cows, so the did as they were told and soon after they had the supply of(continues on next page) - Collector
- Kathleen Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs James Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- c. 49
- Address
- Castletown, Co. Meath
