School: Dunshaughlin
- Location:
- Dunshaughlin, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Eibhlis Cogan
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- ChurningWe have no churn at home but my Aunt has one. I often go to her house for buttermilk. The height of the churn is 2 feet and a half. The width of the top is 20 inches and the width of the bottom is 22 inches.
It is 12 years old. There is a lid on the top of the churn. It has a hole in the middle, and a small handle on it. The dash is a long, wooden pole about four feet long. It has a circular piece of wood attached to the bottom of it. This piece of wood has holes in it. The dash is put into the churn when the milk is ready for churning. The lid is then put on and the handle of the dash passes through the hole in the lid so that it can be moved up and down by the person who is churning. The butter is made once a week in Summer and once a fortnight in Winter. The men do the churning. When a stranger comes into the house no matter what business he has in the house he must take a turn at the churning because there was an old proverb that if he did not take a turn at the churning he would take all the butter away. It takes a quarter of an hour to(continues on next page)
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- Mrs Corcoran
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