School: Tullistown (roll number 5751)

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1. Fairies (continued)

   

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   To Raheen more
   From the girls of Eniskillen.
   Eamon McPartland Tullystown Castletown Streete Co West Meath

   

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2. Churning

   

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   The people long ago used to have the churn and the crocks and the milk pails all out in the barn. Long ago they used to clean their churns with nettles. The woman of the house would go to the bog get bill-berry bushes or heather and cut them short and make a nice scrub with a good tight piece of string round it instead of the bushes that are used at present. Before using that scrub it would be put in a pot of boiling water and a pinch of salt to take the taste of the heather of it. The evening before the churning took place the farmers daughter would go out to the barn and settle up the churn for the next morning. At six o clock the next morning sister and brother perhaps would have to go out and do the churning and by the time they would have it finished their mother

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. agriculture (~2,659)
            1. butter and churns (~3,280)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Peggy Coyle

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Tullystown, Co. Westmeath

   Informant

   Mary Coyle

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Tullystown, Co. Westmeath