School: Rath (roll number 5391)
- Location:
- Rath, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Miss Palmer
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0739, Page 067
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- We have an ordinary dash churn at home. It is small and wide and is worked by hand.
It is used once a week generally on Tuesday.
Churning was done very carefully in days gone by lest the neighbours should take ones butter. In this district it was a common practise to get butter by witchcraft.
There was a few cases in particular. One family had three cows and when their milk was churned they had no butter while their neighbours had plenty of butter(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs Reynolds
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 43
- Address
- Cornacuask, Co. Westmeath
