School: Tattenclave
- Location:
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Chróinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0948, Page 309
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- The way people churned long ago is different to the way people churn now. Only few people now a days churn at all.
The people long ago had a churn and a staff. It is a wooden thing with holes in it and a wooden handle on it. There was a lid on the churn with a whole in the middle of it. The lit is on the churn to keep the milk from splashing out. The hole is in it to let the staff go up and down.
When the milk is think and ready for churning you put it in the churn and put the handle of the staff up through the hole in the lid and then put the staff(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Packie Mc Carvill
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Drumhillagh, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Mick Gallagher
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 63
- Address
- Drumhillagh, Co. Monaghan
