School: Log na nGall (roll number 15663)
- Location:
- Lugnagall, Co. Sligo
- Teachers: Tomás Ó Hodhráin Bean Uí Hodhráin
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- We have a churn at home. It is three feet high and two feet wide. The sides are round. It is twelve years old.The names of the parts belonging to it are; lid, dash, and dabbler.Butter is made once a week in winter and twice or three times a week in Summer. My father and mother do the churning. Sometimes strangers come while the churning is going on, and help. It is said that if they would not take a "brash" they would bring away the butter with them. The churning takes an hour or more sometimes. The churning is done by the hand and the dash is moved upwards and downwards.When the butter begins to appear on the dash it is a sign that it is near churned, and when the dash comes out clean it is churned. Water is poured in to churn the milk. When it is churned the butter is lifted wit ha butter strainer and put into a basin Then a certain quantity of salt is put on it and it is washed and made into rollsThe butter milk is given to the calves, some(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maire Devins
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lugnagall, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mr John Devins
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 64
- Address
- Lugnagall, Co. Sligo
