School: Breac-chluain
- Location:
- Brackloon South, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Liam Mac Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0107, Page 046
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- (continued from previous page)(middle) month of May because every young fowl dies from weakness. Any other month in the year is considered lucky for young fowl.
- In almost every country house here there is a churn, the swing churn, as it is called, being the most common nowadays. Long ago they had the dash churns and some of them are yet to be seen. People prefer the new churns, as the dash splashes the cream and destroys the churner, while the new churn lets out no cream. There is a great deal of difference in the two churns. The old churn is worked by the plunging of a staff, about the width of the handle of a brush, and it is called the dash. The churn is about two and a half feet in height and two feet six inches in circumference on the top, and about three and a half feet at the bottom.
- Collector
- Patricia Hannon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Togher, Co. Mayo
