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1. Churning

   

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   We have a barrel churn at home, it is set on a stand about four feet high, and when the churn is on the stand it is about six feet high. There is a number on the lid 806. The churn can be lifted off the stand when you want to change it.
   There is a small(round shaped) bit of glass on the centre of the lid, and when the butter assumes the size of a grain of on this glass it is a sign that the butter has come.
   Every number of the family must twist the churn, and if a stranger calls to the house he must also take the churn. There are many superstitions connected with churning, some of them going back hundreds of years ago, namely - before churning a pinch of salt, and a coal of fire should be put under the churn and in some families when a death occurs butter does not come at all. In that case it is the custom that the woman of the house writes the Angelus on a piece of paper and leaves it under the churn, then the butter comes at once.

   

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   1. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. agriculture (~2,659)
            1. butter and churns (~3,280)

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   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Mary Kelly

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   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Ballybroder, Co. Galway