School: Kilbeg (roll number 11039)
- Location:
- Robertstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Aodh Ó Duibhgeannáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0709, Page 146
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- We have a dash churn at home; it is three and a half feet high and two feet wide at the top and one feet ten inches at the bottom. It is twenty years of age and it was made by the cooper Carolan who lived at Tierworker in the parish of Kilmainham Wood, in County Meath. We church twice a week in winter and in summer. My mother does the most of the churning and my sisters and I help her. In the winter when the milk is cold, the people put in boiling water in the churn to heat the milk so that it will be easy to churn. When people go into a house where others are churning they take what is called locally ‘brash’(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Julia Smyth
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Robertstown, Co. Meath
