School: Ballymore (C.) (roll number 7444)
- Location:
- Ballymore, Co. Westmeath
- Teachers: K. Kavanagh Mrs Kearney
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0743, Page 367
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- We have one of the antique churns at home, which is a dash churn. It is three and a half feet high, and two feet wide. The sides are round. On the top of the churn, there is a mark, to know the direct place to put the lid. We churn twice each week every Wednesday and Saturday. The churning takes about half an hour. My Mother does the churning and I give her some help. If a stranger comes during the churning operation he should take the dash and leave the weight of himself on the butter. The old people believed long ago that if a stranger arrived when a churning was being done the butter would never be made if he did not take a turn. They addresed the stranger thus : - "Come in avic and lave the weight of yerself on the buther." The churning is done by hand and not by foot.
- Collector
- Una Clarke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mullenmeehan, Co. Westmeath
