School: Rathowen (B) (roll number 5101)
- Location:
- Rathowen, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: T. Mc Garry
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- To present the taking of butter.
a pinch of salt was always put in milk given to strangers
nobody allowed in or near the house on May Day.
An old woman from Crosshea Edgeworthstown had a habit of calling to certain houses on May Day. In each case the butter was gone. The man of the house in one case threw a stone at the first animal. he saw around on that day it was a hare. He struck the hare on the forehead: The old woman next appeared with a patch on her forehead. A rowan tree branch used to be put on the claibín of the churn to prevent the butter being taken.Told by Bernard Connor Winetown Rathowen
78. Farmer. Nov 1937.
- Informant
- Bernard Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 78
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Windtown North, Co. Westmeath
- Its not lucky to build out of the West end of a house. In one case where it was done a boy of the house took a pain in his knee and died Mick Devine Ballygeer Johnston's Bridge Dromod, Leitrim who died over 20 years ago aged 90 said this happened to a brother of his
