School: Ráth Ciaragáin (Mount Bolus)
- Location:
- Rathkeeragan, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: S. Mac Giolla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0809, Page 151
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- (continued from previous page)about fifteen inches in breadth. There is a beaters for it and it is fastened inside with a piece of iron and the handle is in the other side. We churn twice a week in the winter and the same in the summer. When anyone comes in when we are churning they do take a turn at the churning. It is said that they would leave the weight of themselves of butter in the churn.
- We have a hand churn at home. It is turned with a handle and a dash inside the churn. The breadth of it is about eighteen inches. We churn about twice a week in the summer and once a week in the winter. In olden times a certain man used to go in to a house when they would be churning. He took a hand at the churning and then the person went away.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nora Scully
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathlihen, Co. Offaly
