School: Killashee, Longphort (roll number 12515)
- Location:
- Killashee and Aghakeeran, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Seán Ó Muireadhaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0755, Page 134
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- (continued from previous page)it home and put it in their own churn and they would have plenty of butter.
- Long ago it used to take the people a very long time to churn as they had not the right way of doing it. The way that people found out first how to churn was, one day a man was bringing a barrel of milk to a friend and with the shaking on the cart it was churned and butter came on it. When the man went home he told the tale and the people set out and made churns and churned ever afterwards. The old people say that(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Elizabeth Casey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rappareehill, Co. Longford
- Informant
- James Casey
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Rappareehill, Co. Longford
