School: Gortloney (roll number 11978)
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- Gortloney, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Eoghan de Buitléir
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- ChurningWritten by Teresa Grey, Ballinlough, 3rd March 1938.Churning nowadays is far different from long ago. Nowadays people have end-over-end churns but long ago the people churned with dash churns. People have separaters for separating the cream from the milk. We churn twice a week. I help sometimes in the churning. People nowadays go to far more rounds to make the butter nice but long ago the people used to make the butter with their hands. We have a dash churn at home.(continues on next page)