School: Scoil Sheosaimh Ntha (Cailíní)
- Location:
- Gleann na Madadh, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: Úna, Bean Uí Threasaigh
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- 1. After a cow has calved it isn't right to give away any of the cows milk until after the first churning.
2. If you got milk in a house you should not bring into another house on your way home because you would take the butter from that house
3 You should not bring out iron on a coal from a house and the people of that house churning because you would take the butter with you.
4 To give out milk without putting a cup of water in it would cause some bad luck to the cow's milk
1 Long ago when a cow calved the first thing people did was to tie a red string to her tail to stop the witches from taking the milk as witches
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- Collector
- Frances Corely
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Thomas Hussey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Albain, Co. na Gaillimhe
