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School: Monaghan (Christian Bros.) (roll number 16723)

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Monaghan, Co. Monaghan
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M. Ó Floinn
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    and thought they were annoyed with them about something if the butter was a long time about coming on the churn.Sometimes if they had a poor churn of butter they would say that the cows had been "blinked" as there were people supposed to be able to do harmful things to cattle. People do not believe in these kind of things and churning is done mostly by machinery where people do not go to creameries.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. butter and churns (~3,280)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Samuel Erskine
    Gender
    Male