School: Ráth Ciaragáin (Mount Bolus)
- Location:
- Rathkeeragan, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: S. Mac Giolla
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- We have a hand churn at home. It is turned with a handle and a dash inside. The is about twelve inches in breadth. We churn twice a week in the summer and once a week in the winter.
- Collector
- James Daly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cappagowlan, Co. Offaly
- We have a churn at home and it is about six years old. It has a handle in the side it is fastened with a piece of iron and one scrwe. We do have six pounds of butter a week in the summer and three in the winter. It is very hard to make butter in the summer for it is soft. If a person in when you are churning they usually take a dash at the churning. They say that it leave the weight of your self of butter in the churn.(continues on next page)
