1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. St Mary's, Bridge-End

School: St Mary's, Bridge-End

Location:
Bridge End, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Mhic Uidhir
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1109, Page 202

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1109, Page 202

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: St Mary's, Bridge-End
  2. XML Page 202
  3. 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

  1. Churning

    Share Share Post
    Shape of churn
    illustrations
    butter made
    Butter is more plentiful in the Summer than in the Winter. The butter is hard in the Winter.
    Any help got
    The neighbours come in and help the people who churn with a churn staff. Help is not required when it is churned by horses or worked by a petrol engine.
    How churned
    It is churned by a machine, churn staff, by a horse which goes around it. There is a churn [that] the shape of a barrel with a handle on it to churn with.
    butter ready
    When the butter comes to the top of the
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. butter and churns (~3,280)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Annie Mac Laughlin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Coshquin, Co. Derry