School: Cloghan (B.), Banagher

Location:
Cloghan, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
Francis O' Connor
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    Long ago on a May morning people used to go to their neighbour's house to look for milk...

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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    2. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
        1. May (~639)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Denis Maher
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    12
    Collector
    John Robinson
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Mrs Ward
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    80
    Address
    Ballysheil, Co. Offaly
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    Taking butter was very often done in this locality.

    Taking butter was very often done in this Locality. The person who would commit the offence would go to your pasture early of a May morning and he would pluck the Trawneens of grass and say "I cry all" and by doing this there would be no butter on the milk of the cows that would graze on that pasture. The person who would do this would have all your butter.
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