School: Coralstown (roll number 1314)
- Location:
- Correllstown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P. Ó Beóláin
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- Our parents say that when they were young churning was more laborious than what it is now. Nearly all the butter was made by the hand-churn and they are still to be seen in this district. In big farms chuning was done by homes, and about six miles from here in a place called Cloghan it is still done. There are many reasons why churning was so tedious. In the first place the people left the cream too long to gather or to "ripen" as they use to say.(continues on next page)