School: Island View, Cill an Dísirt (roll number 14196)
- Location:
- Tonlegee, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Cochláin
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- The churn we have at home is a square one, it is one foot and a half, by one foot and a half. The names of the different parts are the clappers, the handle, and the lid. Our churn is made twice a week in Summer, and once in Winter. My mother makes the churn. Often a stranger comes in, and he puts the "big of his head" on it. As the old people had a superstitious believe, that who ever would come in would bring the butter, if they did not twist the churn a few times. Our churn is a hand one and takes a quarter of an hour to make it. By the sound of the churn you can know if the butter made or not. As you can see the milk coming out the hand. At first the big(continues on next page)
