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School: Coill an Gharráin (roll number 14865)

Location:
Killacorraun, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Mícheál Ó Riagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0152, Page 349

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  1. Churning

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    We have a churn at home. We use it for churning milk It is four feet six inches round the top. It is three feet round the middle. It is five feet round the bottom, and it is two feet high. Our churn is twenty four years old. It is wider at the bottom than it is at the top, and it is wider at the top than it is at the middle. There are three parts in our churn the lid the churndash and the body of the churn. If [?], a stranger comes in when you are making the churning he takes the churning for a while, because it is said if you do not the fairies will take the butter. Long ago it was a custom that when at churning was
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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
    Eibhlís Ní Ceallacháin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Knockbrack, Co. Mayo