School: Aghalustia (roll number 12484)
- Location:
- Aghalustia, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Máire Ní Dhubhthaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0241, Page 010
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Aghalustia
- XML Page 010
- XML “Churning”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Churning
Butter is made from Cream. First the cream is put into the churn then the lid is put on the churn, then it is churned for about half an hour. Then the Cream is changed into butter, next the butter is taken out and washed and salted. There are different kinds of churns the oldest churns are the plunge churns the next kind is the machine churn. We have a churn at home it is a plunge churn. There are a lot of superstitious stories about churning. It is said that it is not right for a man to come into a house and light his pipe without helping to churn.
Once upon a time a man was going to a fair and he went into a house to light his pipe and he brought a coal to another man outside and they threw the coal into the garden. The people of the house could get no butter on the milk. That day twelve months he went into the same house and they told him that they could get no butter on the milk he brought them out in the garden and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Johnny Flynn
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Aghalustia, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Michael Farrell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Crunaun, Co. Roscommon
