School: Clooncullaun (roll number 13163)
- Location:
- Cluain Coilleáin, Co. Ros Comáin
- Teacher: Liam Mac Leastair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0250, Page 205
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- Making a ChurningWe keep three cows and when my mother has the cows milked she strains the milk into crocks. After a day or two she skims the cream into the churn and churns it.The churn is an old-fashioned one - the type called the dash churn or the plunge churn.Churning is hard work and the other members of the family give a hand and take the dash on their turns, and if a neighbour or a stranger comes in while the churning is going on he too takes a round, as in this part of the country it is not considered right to leave without giving a little help and also to say "God bless the work." on entering.In summer we churn twice a week and in winter when milk is scarce once a week.My sister washes, salts and makes rolls of the butter with a butter spade and sells some of it in the shops in town. We use the rest.Brendan Gannon, Clooneybrennan, Elphin, 60 yrs. Farmer.
- Informant
- Brendan Gannon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Cloonybrennan, Co. Ros Comáin
