School: Loch an Toirc (roll number 9584)
- Location:
- Loughatorick South, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhuirgheasa
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- We have a churn at home. It is two feet be three. It is a hand churn worked with your hand.
There is a mark on the churn C Llewellin and sons Royal prize churns works size no 2 TC. Haverfordwest.
We churn once a week in winter and twice in summer. When the butter is made the butter comes on the glass.
When a stranger comes in he helps at the churn, that he wont take the luck of it.
They put may pole around the churn may eve.
They put ashes under the churn before churning and shake the holy water.
They put hot water in durning the churn.
The old churns were worked by the dash up and down.
