School: Belcarra (C.)
- Location:
- Baile na Cora, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Mary T. Moran
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0094, Page 474
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- Churning
The best time for churning is in the morning easy from four to six or in the cool of the evening. People say that if you are churning and a person to come, it is right for him to take the church dash and churn for a few seconds before he goes out again. It is also said that it is not right to let a person bring out a coal form the fire, or to bring out any vessel or throw out water while churning, and they say it is very lucky to bring in a spade and leave it at the back door. It is not right to bring a can out of the house to a well with a sign of milk on it. They also say it is not right to let new milk out of the house without putting a few drops of water in it.
Some people say that it is not right to give away any of the first churning when a cow is after calving. When a person is going churning, she should put a small quenched coal under(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Mc Donnell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baile na Cora, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Collector
- Mary Flynn
- Gender
- Female
