School: Stackallen (roll number 1309)
- Location:
- Stackallan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: P.T. Mac Gabhann
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- (continued from previous page)is stronger. People use the buttermilk for making bread and for feeding calves. Long ago there were men who were able to make dash churns. There are about twelve people around here who have dash churns. Long ago there was a man who lived near this school and he was able to make dash churns. His name was Joe Mac Guinneas. There was also another man who lived at Rushwee named Paddy Mongey he used to make churns also. People preserve butter in a covered crock and the people who are beside the bog preserve it in the bog water.
