School: Gurranes, Bandon

Location:
Garranes, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Nóra O' Halloran
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0315, Page 069

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0315, Page 069

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    giving a “turn to the handle” or a “twist to the churn”. It would be a cause of great suspicion & bad feeling for the person who would not touch the churn. That is a custom still & I found it in every part of Ireland. A drink of buttermilk was always offered by the woman of the house to those who helped to make the churn & one time in a house in Shraheen Co Mayo where I refused the drink ( I did not know about the custom then) the woman never saluted me afterwards, although I had given a few turns to the churn.
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    Although this is the parish of Templemartin the people keep up none of the old customs of St Martin's eve.

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