School: Tattenclave
- Location:
- Táite an tSléibhe, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Chróinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0948, Page 313
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- (continued from previous page)The way the people would know when the butter was made is: they would lift up the dash and if they was not any butter on it, it would be made. When a stranger comes in they take the dash, and churn for a while for good luck, and if they did not it would be for bad luck. The way they lift the butter is they wash their hands =. Then they get a basin of cold water and put the butter into it.
- Strangers who come in during the churning help at the work. They say "I'll leave the weight of myself of butter on it" If a person came to a neighbour's house long ago for a small can of buttermilk(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Ward
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 11
- Address
- An Chailleach, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Informant
- James Ward
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 58
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- An Chailleach, Co. Mhuineacháin
