School: Baile na Cille (roll number 1320)

Location:
Ballynakill, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Éinrí Ó Mainnín
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0051, Page 0074

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0051, Page 0074

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: Baile na Cille
  2. XML Page 0074
  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. (continued from previous page)
    Churning
    be allowed out without giving a few twists to the handle of churn. It is said that he would bring the butter with him. Long ago a coal was put under the churn. A man would not be allowed to light his pipe while they were churning. There was no noise allowed while the people were churning.
    Lucy Martin
    Newtown
    Kylebrack
    Loughrea
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. butter and churns (~3,280)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Lucy Martin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Newtown, Co. Galway