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School: Baile Gaedhaelach (C.)

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Irishtown, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Mrs Mc Manus
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0097, Page 275

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  1. A Churning

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    Our churn is four feet high, eighteen inches wide in the bottom and sixteen inches wide in the top.
    The sides of it are round It is three years old. The different parts of the churn are the lid, churn-dash and the rattler.
    There is usually a mark on the churn for the lid to fit into properly. The making of churnings depend on the number of cows a person has, if they have one of two cows they make a churning each week. It's nearly always the woman of the house that makes the churning, and the people of the houses take it in their turn afterwards. Tradition says that it is right for
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. butter and churns (~3,280)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nancy Noonan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    36309
    Informant
    Mrs Bridget Noonan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kilvine, Co. Mayo