School: Cill Cruain (B)
- Location:
- Ballyglass South, Co. Galway
- Teacher: -
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- Almost in every house in my district there is a churn. I have a churn at home and it is many a time I made a churning with it. This churn was made by Thomas Dowd, Glinsk, Ballymoe, Co Galway, and it is nine months old. It is about two feet and a half in hight and the bottom and top is about one foot wide. This is a machine churn and some people calls it a head over heel churn. My mother makes a churning about twice a week. There is an old story told about churning and it is this. If you were making a churning and a man to some in and light his pipe and to go out again(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joseph Finnegan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilsallagh, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Patrick Finnegan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Kilsallagh, Co. Galway