School: Baile Rua (Buachaillí)

Location:
Ballyroe, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Pádraig Mac Crosáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0014, Page 074

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    butter with them. The people also say is is not right to feed the pigs when a churning is going on nor any thing like that.
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  2. A churning is made once a week and sometimes twice, and now I am going to give you some information about it. The churning a long ago were a lot different to those now-a-days. The way they used to make them long ago is first they would clean the churn and then get what is called the dash, the clapper, and the lid. Then they would start beating the dash
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. butter and churns (~3,280)
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