School: Ballinacree (B.) (roll number 13965)
- Location:
- Ballynacree, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Pádraic Ó Connachtáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0717, Page 097
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- I (P. Connaughton) got those charms from an old woman on condition that I should not disclose her name. Letter (a) she states can be done even at the present time (& should not be printed for the public)BUTTER;
(a)
Skim the water off the drinking pool from which the cows drink, with the buttermilk porringer and fill a milking pail - take the water home & put some of it into the first churning. During the skimming it must be said "The cream of this farmer is mine"
This must be done at day-break on May morn.(b)
Tie a woollen thread (yarn) from tráithnín to tráithnín around any "bó páirc" on May morn Any cows coming inside that yarn before sun set of that day her butter goes to the family who tied that yarn.(c)
Take a piece of clay or mud from between the crúibín of the cow & place that piece under the churn for the first churning. This to be done May Day.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- P. Connaughton
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
