School: Mullagh (B)
- Location:
- Mullagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: James Drury
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- We have a churn at home. It is a churn worked by a dash. It is two feet six inches in height and is one foot and a half at the base. There is also a lid with it, and we churn three times a week. Some people when they are churning would not let anyone bring a lighted coal out from the fire for they say you would bring the butter with you. One day people were churning in their house when a woman came in for a lighted coal to light her fire. When the people were finished they had no butter and they said it was the woman that brought the light coal from the fire brought the butter with her too and from that on they never let anyone bring a lighted coal from the fire while they were churning. Anyone that comes in during the churning has to take a brash because the people say you would bring the butter with you. It takes an hour to churn. In the winter people before they start to churn(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Tony Martin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mullagh, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mrs Martin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mullagh, Co. Cavan
