School: Tomena
- Location:
- Gortullaghan, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T. Mac Uidhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0963, Page 472
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- (continued from previous page)bring the butter, or never to leave it in a place where the milk could get winded.
And so, ever afterwards the butter came on the milk.
- ChurningWe have a churn at home. It is over twenty years of age. It is like a barrel widened at the bottom and narrow at the top. The name of the various parts are the churn, the lid, the dash, the dabler. In the Summer milk used to be churned every day but since the creameries started no milk is churned. All the country milk is sent to the creamery. If a stranger comes in when churning is in progress he must take a brash in order not to take the butter off the churn. The dash which has a long handle is worked up(continues on next page)
