School: Moyne (C.) (roll number 13990)
- Location:
- Moyne, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Bean Uí Tháibh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0766, Page 560
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- (continued from previous page)he used to go to a well and every smoke he saw rising from the chimneys he would say -
"From all the houses that I see may half the butter come to me".
When he churned during the following year he used to have the full of a very big pail of butter and only a small quantity of milk to churn.
Some people nowadays would not let a man light his pipe with a coal at the fire while they would be churning as he would bring away the luck when he would bring out the coal in his pipe.
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“We have names on our horse and pony.”
We have names on our horse and pony The horse frightens at things on the road. There was a man in this district called John Duffy, Moyne He had a horse and he called him the High Flier The horse turned wicked and the man could not fodder him He put him in the stable and kept him there for 7 1/2 years and threw fodder to him with a pitch fork. - Collector
- Mary Joe Gray
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Moyne, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Mr F. Gallagher
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Leggagh, Co. Longford
