Scoil: Timahoe (uimhir rolla 14486)

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1. The Butter Taking

   

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   Butter_Taking
   Years ago it was the custom for people to take butter and it often happened up the mountain.
   My mother knew a couple of neighbours who could never get a bit off butter off the churn and they blamed people for taking it. One instance was William Keightley who had nine cows and no matter what they did, they never had an ounce of butter. This happened when his mother and father were alive.
   One morning as William's father was out in the cows pasture he saw a neighbour of his going through the cow's_gaps and picking up the bits of clay which fell from the cow's feet and taking them home in a wooden pail. They had suspicion of him because this man used to have a large amount of butter and a churn of butter_milk in the market of Athy and had only one cow of his own. At all events Thomas Keightley William's Father went to a fairy_woman by the name of Moll Redmond in the Co Wicklow and told her his trouble. She told him to go out

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