School: Teampall Mhuire
- Location:
- Carbad Beg, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Eithne, Bean Uí Mhaonghaille
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0144, Page 365
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Teampall Mhuire
- XML Page 365
- XML “Churning”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- The churns long ago were round shaped, ones like a barrel, about 3 feet high. They were wider at the bottom than at the top. They were made by skilful men called Coopers. These churns were made of oak.There is a round lid on top, and a dash called a churn dash. There is a round hole on the lid, and the churn dash is put through it, and worked up and down in the milk.The dash has a long handle with a nice round board, with 4 or 5 holes in it. We draw the dash up and down, and we continue that until the butter comes on it.Long ago they used to have many pisroges concerning butter. If a man came in lighting a pipe they wouldn't let him out until butter would come an the milk. If a person came in while a churning was making, he'd(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Mc Hale
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tooreen, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Forde
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tooreen, Co. Mayo
