School: Ballynarry
- Location:
- Ballynarry, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. Mac Gabhann
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0989, Page 043
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Ballynarry
- XML Page 043
- XML “The Most Harmful Weeds”
- XML “On Churning”
- XML “On the Weather”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)The chicken weed is good for a strain and spreads very quickly in the fields. The crow foot spreads very quickly also. The Herbs generally grow in the fields and gardens.
- We have a Churn at home. It is a barrel churn. It is four foot high. The parts of the churn are the lid and the handle. Our churn is a round one. There are hoops for keeping it together. We have the churn about four years. It was bought in Ballyjamesduff. There is no mark on the bottom of our churn. We churn once a week in the Winter and twice a week in the Summer. My Mother does the churing and if any stranger comes in they take a brash. Our churn is worked by the hand. A strainer is used for lifting the butter of the churn then it is put into a pale full of water until the milk is well took out off it. When it is took out of the water it is salted and made into pound bars then it is taken to the shop to sell.
- Collector
- Anna May Gaffney
- Gender
- Female
- The Irish Farmers are good judges of the weather. The signs of the weather are÷ The moon the stars(continues on next page)
