School: Scoil na mBráthar Sligeach
- Location:
- Sligo, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: An Br. C. Ó Maoil Riada
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- (continued from previous page)will not get out round the edges.The churn is a very useful thing to have. It is mostly used by the country people. It is shaped like a barrel and made of timber held together by hoops of steel. It is about four feet high and eighteen inches wide. The lid is arranged a little bit from the top. It also has a hole in the middle of it in which the dash is placed. The dash is long and handle-like made of timber weighted at the end with a heavy piece of wood.
The milk is churned by pumping the dash up and down by the hand. The way you know that the butter is churned is when bits of butter are seen on the dash. Then the churner tilts the churn by putting a bit of wood beneath the churn.
- An old custom is that on All Soul's night some people put a light in each window of their houses to guide the Souls during the night. Some people have the(continues on next page)
